Sanjeev Sahota
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first heard Aug 2021
last heard Aug 2021
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in the 99 strand and what she's trying to achieve as well.
So I think A Portrait of a Lady must have been in my head and it is a touchstone for me, that book.
I really love Edith Wharton's novels and just talking about structure, how Edith Wharton's novels are made up of lots of triangulated dynamics and lots of like threes, if you think of Ethan Frome or The Age of Innocence.
and threes and triangles are really important to the structure of China Room.
When I think of Three Brides, Three Brothers, the triangle between Surajit and Mer, between Tambir, Adhika and the unnamed narrator, the fact that it takes place over three summers in 2019, I must have been using this idea of threes and triangulated dynamics which I guess I've kind of just inhaled for me to kind of ground my novel.
Definitely.
And in terms of style, I really have always been deeply attracted to, I mean, you mentioned restraint rightly, I think, Kate, but I've always been deeply attracted to writers who have that kind of terse lyricism bordering on a kind of severity in their language and curtsies and
An obvious one, there's a writer called Kate Jennings who I really love her two novels and she embodies that kind of writing as well and I always respond quite deeply to that kind of fairness, I think.
Well, in terms of this novel, there's a short, very English novel called A Month in the Country by J.L.
Carr.
It's only about 80 pages, but it speaks a lot about the care that is afforded to outsiders.
It's about a young man who goes to this village in Oxfordshire to kind of process his own trauma and come to terms with his past and how being in the country
is a balm.
I think it's a novel I've always kind of loved, so that might have been in play in my head somewhere as well.
I recently read A Passage North by a
a Sri Lankan writer called Anuk Arunpurgasam and I love that it's a novel set in Sri Lanka and it talks about war and the trauma of war and in a way it talks about politics but it talks about almost the psychology of politics and how politics kind of enters
you know, the house into the bedroom, how it just kind of, the atmosphere of it really can take hold in someone's psyche.
I suppose there's a link there perhaps with China Room, how though there is a political backdrop to the 1929 Sun, which is the Indian independence movement, that also feeds into the atmosphere of the house, the secrets, the mistrust, the fear, that's all there in the house as well, which is, so the house or the farm in China Room almost becomes a microcosm for society.
the feelings going on outside of the farm.
But yeah, Passage North is a novel I read recently that I really, really, really enjoyed, admired.
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