Recommended
The writing is wonderful. I loved how we learn Burma’s given name in the course of a romantic moment. I loved how Bothra Seth is introduced — his violence makes the water in a glass ripple, as in the scene with the T.rex in Jurassic Park. I loved the little echoes, how Guna completes Burma’s line about dogs and planes in the sky. I loved the joyous sting at the check point — it made me chortle. And I loved, most of all, the last scene — a superb twist, the kind we never get because of our insistence on happily-ever-after. Burma made me so high on how crime can entertain that Ialmost forgot it doesn’t pay.