Fida Hussain

This is a very interesting novel. It tragically highlights the circumstances of partition affecting relations. Families part like partition of Pakistan. Sects turn arch enemies of each other. Almost every character in one way or other way is negativity affected by the partition of Pakistan...... I love this novel....

As per my weltanshaang, the book debunks the power of rhetoric. The phrase word shaker alludes to the manipulative use of language. Hitler as described in the book was, by the use of words, provoking and brainwashing people against Jews. He got millions of Jews killed and burnt . Antisemitism seems to be the hinge of this novel. Not only liesel but other characters like max are victim of Hitler's cruelty. The novel has various threads but antisemitism surfaces more than other issues...

The books has in it the two significant symbolic references, one to kafka's bitter relationship to his father and second to Oedipus who slept with his mother and killed his own father. Kafka tamura in the novel is a Kafkaesque protagonist who abandons home to avert the prophecies but he fails to party this tragedy as he finally sleeps with his mother, miss saeki and his sister, sakura. The novel traces the catastrophic riddles of life which deny unravel like kafka does everything to not materialize the prophecies but he is trapped in circumstances where he unconsciously materializes them. The another thread of the novel is Nataka, who lost his memory. But after the loss, he seems to be blessed by special powers of communicating to cats. His description signifies that new things are achieved at the cost of previous things. Whole novel is about the unresolved issues of life in which things don't work as per our plans but by the circumstances.

Very horrible