Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

This was again a big one and the author was the reason I wanted to read it after completing The Penelopiad by her.

This is a historical fiction which revolves around a real person named Grace who was convicted of a murder. The author has added a lot of fictional characters and details to make it look like a story.

Grace was sentenced to life imprisonment, and the narration goes in detail about her madness and asylum days.

The novel is written in a very engaging style however, I lost a lot of things due to force fitting the narration of weather, and the scene. I strongly believe that a lot could have been omitted in editing as it was unnecessarily adding to the pages without delivering any affect.

As far as characters are concerned there was a confusion over the whole narration as it was told differently by different characters. It never tried to claim her crime or innocence which was very vague. But ultimately it was not expected to be crime novel.

Finally, it is not highly recommended because if you are unable to read it you're not missing much, until and unless you're very much prone to fall for anything which has Booker nomination tagged with it.

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