A world I want to know | Stealing Karma

More, please | Stealing Karma | Aneesha Capur

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	• Stealing Karma Aneesha Capur Amazon, 2007 - 8 pages average customer review:based on 112 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

"Journey's Through Lifetimes"

After reading the manuscript review by Publishers Weekly provided in the Editorial Reviews concerning the novel `Stealing Karma' by Aneesha Capur I couldn't wait to read the nine pages submitted to Amazon's ABNA contest. Here is a book containing a plethora of subject matter near and dear to my heart; prophetic dreams, Hindu deities, astrological omens, African tribal beliefs and Jungian psychology and reincarnation. It was almost too much to ask for.

With such high hopes in place I must admit that I was extremely disappointed after reading the excerpt. Not because the writing is bad or the story uninteresting. To the contrary, both writing and storyline are excellent. The disappointment experienced was due to the discovery that none of those tantalizing spiritual/occult matters already mentioned were included within the available nine pages.

Moving beyond my initial dismay, I did enjoy this excerpt and look forward to reading the novel at some later date. The characters are well developed and I found Mira an intriguing, beautiful and incredibly sympathetic figure. To create such an alluring and complex character in a short nine pages is a credit to the author and makes the reader hungry for more pages to explore.

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A world I want to know

Aneesha Capur's novel, Stealing Karma, is a story brimming with characters and situations that feel fresh, unexplored, and compelling. The dynamics here may mirror others in contemporary fiction concerned with domestic complexities, however, Stealing Karma spins them on their head and uses the cultural milieu to show us human interaction as we have never seen it before. I want to be here, in this world, and get to know its characters and how they will ultimately resolve the issues they face. The writing is clear, lyrical, steeped in place and feeling, and makes you thirst for more. Capur offers a delightful antidote to the kinds of fiction we have seen so much of in the past few years. This is a book that many readers of all backgrounds will be sure to find satisfying.

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More, please

A pity that one can only read a few pages of what promises to be a most interesting story! Capur catches the reader's imagination and holds it with tantalizing imagery and dialogue, moving the plot forward, leaving one wanting for more. What happens to Mira? How does she cope? I look forward to reading the novel in its entirety.

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Capur shines

In a world where so many of us have been driven by a sense of adventure or desperation or opportunity to seek our fortunes abroad, Stealing Karma weaves the story of the expatriate into the life of Mira who loses nearly all connection to India after she leaves for Africa. Mira is suddenly widowed and the precariousness of her adopted world, her erstwhile world of choice, is stark. In her excerpt, Aneesha Capur skillfully sets the plot for the reader: karma will transform the comfortable, even opulent, lives of Mira and her young child. But Mira now belongs to neither the world she left nor the world that has left her.......

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This Author Has "Perfect Pitch"

Some books are like the best of cats, they end up in your lap whenever you have a spare moment; they seek your company even as you desire theirs. Stealing Karma will be that book that one gives to a dozen friends - and they will all be grateful for it. Amazing.

A mother-daughter relationship that crosses borders, cultures and even past lives. In 1982, Mira Sharma, who lives in Nairobi through an arranged marriage, becomes a widow. In the aftermath of an attempted coup by the military, Mira finds herself left on her own in a foreign land with no income and a daughter, Shanti, to support in the swirl of political turmoil. Burdened by memories of the past, and unable to overcome her position of vulnerability in her current existence, Mira succumbs to depression, giving over the care of Shanti to others. After being estranged from Mira for over ten years, Shanti learns that Mira is dying of cancer. By confronting their turbulent history and equivocal present, through a process of healing, forgiveness and letting go, Shanti discovers a new romantic love and the potential for living a peaceful life. Excerpts have been published/ won awards in Wild River Review, Writer's Digest and Glimmer Train.

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