Jonahwhale Ranjit Hoskote is a fiction book that brings together character, conflict, and storytelling. It may appeal to readers looking for a character, conflict, and storytelling reading experience.
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Jonahwhale, in three beautiful movements, takes on very current themes in its playful, mostly aquatic scope, moving from the ocean to the river Ganges to Marine Drive itself. It raises the narratives of Biblical eight century prophet Jonah, who escapes death by spending three nights in the belly of a whale, and the more recent Moby Dick, whose obsessive Captain Ahab chases the eponymous whale who bit off his leg; even as it resurrects the diverse figures who ran ships along the global trade routes of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the themes of the city at war with itself, among many other concerns. The whale is different things at different moments, in this work, as is the ocean. For, ultimately, Moby Dick is about perception and understanding or not understanding, and the whale is that which we all struggle to pierce; it is also, perhaps, that which swallows us whole and lets us live, sometimes ignorant of what it signifies. Are we within the whale,...
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