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Bhowani Junction
Written by John Masters
Narrated by Neil Hunt, Jill Tanner and Patrick Tull
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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World War II has finally played itself out, and the British are leaving India. Through this vortex is spun a fictional plot of terror and politics that illustrates all-too-well the curse that still plagues India today. You can almost smell the mixture of dust, oil, and human sweat as the train pulls into Bhowani Junction.
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John Masters
John Masters was a British novelist and regular officer of the Indian Army. He wrote several novels set in India, the most famous of which, Bhowani Junction, was turned into a successful film starring Ava Gardner. He died in 1983.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I couldn't finish it, I was bored stiff
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The plot of Bhowani Junction is told from three separate points of view with the narrative voices of Victoria Jones (the product of a mixed marriage of English and Indian parents); her one-time lover, Patrick Taylor, also from a mixed family and the main character, Rodney Savage, a colonel in the British Army in India. Their individual narratives involve the situation in India during the twilight of the Raj and the anticipation of the eventual turn-over of power from the British to the indiginous population. Also involved is the love story of first Victoria and Patrick, then Victoria and her Sikh co-worker, and finally Victoria and Savage.Strong points to Masters for his spot-on description of the racial and social divides of India, the plight of the racially mixed Anglo-Indians and the ever-present challenges of the Indian climate. A side plot involves an Indian terrorist and a plot to blow up a railway tunnel but most of the novel centers on Victoria and her attempts to come to terms with herself, her sexuality and her racial identity.