{"id":3271,"date":"2023-12-14T12:17:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T12:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websprintersdemo.in\/blogs\/?page_id=3271"},"modified":"2024-01-19T07:48:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T07:48:04","slug":"arrangements-of-love","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/websprintersdemo.in\/blogs\/arrangements-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrangements Of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Set like a medieval tapestry, this fantastic novel offers a rich petit point set with animals, people, trees, the sea, prodigal sons and warring parents, passionate romances and gothic fortresses. It begins with the return of Nikhil Figgis, a young theatre director from New York, to Chennai. Within minutes of his arrival, a taxi driver makes off with his suitcase that contains a precious copy of the book, Georgetown<\/em>, which he wishes to adapt into a play.<\/p>

We then meet Apu, who runs a detective agency. Nikhil hires her to locate S.K. Naidu\u2014who turns out to be a cross between Salinger and Miss Havisham, lives in a fortress-like house and entertains no visitors. He is also Nikhil\u2019s long-lost father and the author of Georgetown<\/em>.<\/p>

Delicately, Murari weaves Apu, her family and Nikhil\u2019s estranged American wife, Renee, into the plot. Human relationships and a comic under plot that involves a crocodile in Nikhil\u2019s bathtub intertwine like a tangle of bright skeins. The crocodile wraps itself around Nikhil\u2019s heart and when, at the end, he releases it into a river, both their Homeric journeys come to a dramatic close. In terms of sheer audacity and the liberties he takes with his tale, few can match Murari\u2019s arrangements of love. OUTLOOK Magazine.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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A CHENNAI MYSTERY<\/span><\/p>\n

Tanuja Chandra, Sunday Express<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a novel by William Faulkner called The Sound and the Fury in which he narrated events through the experiences of different characters, Roshomon-like, moving from one mind to the next, one heart to the next. It resulted in a heart-breaking classic. Timeri N. Murari, which is by no means easy to pull off successfully.<\/span><\/p>\n

That is he uses the same method in his book \u2014 a style of structure, mind you interesting feature of The Arrangements of Love. After the initial impatience the reader might feel, and the occasional confusion, the voyeuristic feeling of travelling through four peoples\u2019 thoughts and emotions, is quite delicious.<\/span><\/p>\n

The story is an unusual mystery of sorts, which unfolds as a journey of a young American-born Indian, a writer of plays, who\u2019s looking for his estranged father in Chennai. It\u2019s the first time \u201cNikhil\/Nicky\u201d has stepped into India because his mother has raised him with the conviction that India has nothing that\u2019s not despicable in it. His father, like him is a writer, but one of great repute, who is still ravaged by the painful memories of his wife leaving him for his American friend; hell, he didn\u2019t even know he had a son! Nicky has hired a private detective to help him find his father \u2014 and is surprised to know it\u2019s a woman! She\u2019s convinced she\u2019s real good at her job, he\u2019s not. Expectedly they start feeling attracted to each other; the fact that she\u2019ll soon be having an \u201carranged engagement\u201d to an NRI notwithstanding unusual thing of all \u2014 a baby crocodile that the playwright finds in the bathtub of his hotel! It\u2019s bizarre and quite funny, and the twisted way in which the \u201cCroc block\u201d resolves itself is well-plotted. The different conflicts in the book: the father\u2019s hatred for his betraying wife, the \u201cAmerican\u201d playwright\u2019s disgust with corruption in India, not to mention pollution, the frustration of the female detective in a male-dominated profession \u2014 all these find a final resting place through the telling of the tale, as most of the prejudices that these people have start deteriorating. The characters rise above their weaknesses.<\/span><\/p>\n

And yet, maybe this should have been a shorter book. Maybe Murari should have stuck to the model by Faulkner and not gone back and forth between the minds of the characters so often. This causes repetition of events, which only at times is interesting. It\u2019s important for the author to know the limits of such a technique. Cliches have to be thrown out of the window and emotions must be deeply felt, otherwise the reader wonders: Why do I have to be inside four peoples\u2019 minds constantly even when it\u2019s not riveting?<\/span><\/p>\n

Faulkner had also used very different styles of \u201ctalking\u201d for each character, which powerfully evoked distinct personalities, effectively conveying the individual maelstrom in each heart. Yes, Murari is a clever user of words, but in language each character only marginally differs from another, despite the fact that they come from different continents, different generations. Painting each person in definite strokes right down to their lingo would have added lip-smacking salt to proceedings.<\/span><\/p>\n

And it\u2019s the salt that makes all the difference. A book like a film, I\u2019m learning, should not just be one which the reader is made to \u201cpass through\u201d. The book has to call him. It must invite him to peep in and then slowly but surely he must be irretrievably sucked into its whirlpool. He must be drowned in its churning waters and then thrown out, thoroughly drenched and \u201cbuzzing\u201d. A monumental task, no doubt, and Arrangements does that successfully.<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

-Murari uses the narratives of Nikhil, Apu, S.K. Naidu and Sushima to tell the story, and to beautifully juxtapose the Indian and American concepts of love and marriage. The Arrangements of Love<\/i> is simple, human and a subtle exploration of feelings. It also delves deep into the lives of ordinary people to come out with extraordinary observations.  At the end, what endures and reassures is love —  across time, place and boundaries, and quite without any arrangement.  DECCAN CHRONICLE.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

– The language and word usage is so different to what one is accustomed to reading that it adds a piquant flavour.  The characters in the novel are quirky and their lives seem so complicated.  Contemporary events like the 9\/11 bombings of the World Trade Centre are skillfully woven into the story. DECCAN HERALD.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

– What really keeps you going is a comedy of errors theme, a plot driven by interesting characters, all interconnected by the strange twist of destiny. A great read. FIRST CITY.<\/span> 
<\/span>– The comedy is nicely paced with multiple first person shifts and there is humour.  INDIA TODAY.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Le coeur entre deux mondes<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

A partir des themes de la famille et de l\u2019exil, de un roman enivrant sur I\u2019Inde d\u2019aujourd\u2019hui<\/span><\/p>\n

LES ARRANGEMENTS DE L\u2019AMOUR<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

De Timeri N. Murari<\/span><\/p>\n

Traduit de L\u2019anglais (Inde) par Pierre Charras<\/span><\/p>\n

Mercure de France 24 \u20ac<\/span><\/p>\n

Il ne taut pas simplement lire Les Arrangements de l\u2019amour<\/i> mais d\u2019abord lui preter l\u2019oreille. Comme on \u00e9coule un chant, dont la melodie nous est radicaleiment \u00e9trang\u00e8re. Comme on se laisse envelopper par une sid\u00e9rante m\u00e9lopee. Nous voil\u00e0 en Inde, du cote de Madras. Les rues exhalent ses effluves, ceux des bhajis et des dosas pr\u00ebpar\u00ebs dans quelque gargote et ses partums venus de la fraicheur des jardins ou s\u2019enhardit la fleur de Jasmin que les jeunes femmes aiment a porter au poignet. Un peu plus loin, a peine sorti de la ville, l\u2019horizon rosit sous le soleil qui darde ses rayons sur les champs de piments rouges, rivallsant avec l\u2019\u00e9clat des plantations de manguiers.<\/span><\/p>\n

C\u2019est dans cet univers satur\u00e9 d\u2019odeurs et de couleurs que Nikhul, un jeune homme d\u2019ori- gine indienne n\u00e9 et \u00e9lev\u00e9 aux Etats-Unis d\u00e9barque un jour pour y chercher le pere qu\u2019il croyait mort. Une qu\u00eate racontee a quatre voix. Celle de Nikhil, le fils: celle de la mere, Susie, qui a \u00e9migr\u00e9 aux Etats-Unis, fuyant sa culture, reniant jusqu\u2019\u00e0 son propre pr\u00e9nom Indien; celle du p\u00e9re, reclus, inconsolable depuis le depart de Susie, qui ne sait plus ce qu\u2019amour veut dire et enfin celle d\u2019une jeune detective, Apu, la belle Indienne. Des voix qu se relaient les unes les autres, confessant leurs amours dans la secret de leur sollioque.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cette qu du pere sert de pretext a Timeri N Murari pour s\u2019amuser a travers le personnage de Nikhui, a mettre en scene non pas le choc mais le frotterment de deux civilisations que ne s\u00e9parent pas seulement quelques milliers de kilom\u00e9tres. Une societe liberal face a une soci\u00e9t\u00e9 administree, le mariage d\u2019amour contre le mariage arrange, le rationnel contre la superstition… L\u2019affaire semble entendue. Et pourtant Timeri N. Murari consid\u00e8re ces deux mondes dans leur complexite, avec autant d\u2019agacements que de tendresse contenue.<\/span><\/p>\n

FLORENCE<\/span> COURET, LA CROIX<\/span><\/p>\n

COUP DE COEUR<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 MADRAS MON AMOUR<\/span><\/p>\n

Qu\u2019il soit rarement a la hauteur de nos esp\u00e9rances, se fasse attendre, blesse ou transporte, on n\u2019\u00e9chappe pas a l\u2019amour. Les trois personnages de Timeri N. Murari, ex-joumaliste au < Guardian et auteur du best-seller Taj > se debattent entre raison et sentiments. Nikhil, metteur en scene indien elev\u00e9 a New York, pas vraiment remis de son recent divorce avec une actrice blonde, d\u00e9barque a Madras pour y chercher son p\u00e8re, un myst\u00e9rieux \u00e9crivain disparu de la circulation. Pour le retrouver, il fait appel a Apu, detective privee sexy et \u00e9mancip\u00e9e qui, apr\u00e8s la perte de son grand amour, a \u00e9pous\u00e9 le candidat ideal selon sa mere un riche Indien installe aux Etats-Unis et en qu\u00eate d\u2019une \u00e9pouse en sari. C\u2019est aussi cc dont parle l\u2019auteur; l\u2019oscillation perpetuelle de ses concitoyens entre modernit\u00e9 et tradition. On reve de culture am\u00e9ricaine et de liberte, mais on retoune au pays pour se chercher une \u00e9pouse (propos\u00e9e sur un plateau par les parents), on vit a Chicago ou a Houston, mais pas question de renoncer au principe de la dot (pourtant interdite en Inde !). A Madras, malgr\u00e9 so bonne volonte, le jeune auteur se sentira aussi paum\u00e9 que le crocodile qu\u2019il a frouv\u00e9 dans la baignoire de sa chambre d\u2019h\u00f4tel ! C\u2019est dr\u00f4le, grave et l\u00e9ger a la fois, comme l\u2019amour, parfois.            TIFENN DIJCHATELLE, ELLE<\/span><\/p>\n

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