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"Gopal is the only one left in the Kachiguda house. In its dark rooms, once filled with a great family legacy, his legendary father's intellectual whispers and the cries of six children, he looks back on a generation gone wrong. Why did their litter fail? Where did they go wrong in their lives? Can a family's decadence be explained in the little things left behind in those Dark Rooms – a picture of his father standing next to his Moris Minor, a broken gramophone, a deserted kitchen. Sleeping for hours under an old creaking fan, he looks back to his failed marriage to Kaveri, Kaveri who left him, remarried and moved to America. Dark Rooms is also a saga of a man seen through the eyes of a nephew, from the time when Gopal first meets Kaveri to when the news of Kaveri's death comes to him, while he awaits her, sitting in one of those Dark Rooms.
The book looks back on a family of six children born into a famous literary family, examining the reason for ther failing in life, and why they could not living up to the reputation of their esteemed father, who dies when they were still very young, leaving them fatherless. "
Suri Iyer, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Inside culture (main char)
- Indian (Ghandi, not Sitting Bull)
Other aspects:
- immigrant story
Family, struggle with
Yes
Struggle with:
- all of family
Ethnic/regional/gender life
Yes
Main Character
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- artist
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric/Mental
Yes
Eccentric:
- eccentric
- obsessed
- deluded
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Indian Indian
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- homemaker
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a moderate amount
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
Asia/Pacific
Yes
Asian country:
- India
City?
Yes
City:
- dirty, grimy (like New York)
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- actual description of hetero sex
Unusual Style:
- a lot of stream of consciousness
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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