Towers of Silence

 

Towers Of Silence by Berjis Desai
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Brilliant!
The breathless narrative style of Rushdie meets the occult suffused world of David Mitchell, interlaced with healthy dollops of Murakami’s preternatural secret pathways. This engrossing multi-generational eidolic tale gallops along with an unflagging pace. It is ‘peopled’ with benign phantasms, evil spirits and reincarnations paying off karmic debts.
Despite a graphic genealogical tree, relationships of the protagonists are unclear due to matrimonial alliances within the chthonic incestuous Parsi community. The author graciously projects the foibles of some of his community’s inbred feeble-minded individuals who are nonetheless memorable characters.
Is it somewhat autobiographical? Berjis (Desai) and the protagonists Burjor, both are lawyers...
A must-read!


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