This Is Where the Serpent Lives
Sensitive and powerful ... The women in This Is Where the Serpent Lives are sharply drawn, but their roles are more circumscribed ... The magic in This Is Where the Serpent Lives is the up-close work. Mueenuddin makes the reader care about the romantic relationships, and the pages turn themselves ... A serious book that you’ll be hearing about again, later in the year, when the shortlists for the big literary prizes are announced ... I wish it were more unbuttoned.
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Maps an entire society in flux over six decades while presenting half a dozen portraits of contradictory, sympathetic, flawed, and utterly believable individuals. This subtle, wide-ranging, and enthralling novel makes some demands of its readers, but repays them in full.
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Mueenuddin’s characters are vividly drawn, and though his prose is spare, it also offers phrases of great beauty ... Has that kind of ambition and captures its world in the same exhilarating and unsparing way.
