This complex tale of corruption during Indira Gandhi's years in office returns once more to the Bombay Parsi community. ... Gandhi's declaration of a state of internal emergency, the book turns first toward the Parsi community in an unidentified city by the sea that resembles Bombay, but its plot opens up to embrace other characters and to expand the settings. ... Instead, he has turned their lives into a metaphor that stands for the human experience: the fears, the joys, the ambitions and failures, the terror and the conflicts, finally the sense of balance that once attained will ...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This complex tale of corruption during Indira Gandhi's years in office returns once more to the Bombay Parsi community. ... Gandhi's declaration of a state of internal emergency, the book turns first toward the Parsi community in an unidentified city by the sea that resembles Bombay, but its plot opens up to embrace other characters and to expand the settings. ... Instead, he has turned their lives into a metaphor that stands for the human experience: the fears, the joys, the ambitions and failures, the terror and the conflicts, finally the sense of balance that once attained will ...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Correspondingly, Patrick contorts other characters' identities as his own. ... When reflecting light from the six stars, the main characters in the novel, Patrick is able to gain a temporary identity. ... When Patrick is without an identity and the light of other characters, he is also lacking love. ... It reveals Patrick's true character. ... As the story progresses, his true character divulges and the readers learn more about him. ...

• Word Count: 3985
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School