A beautifully written description of life in pre-Partition India, guaranteed to tug at the heart strings of anyone who has lived in India and of anyone who has wanted to. Jaffrey includes recipes, too, which is a nice surprise. Also a surprise is her short, biting, bitter, well-deserved condemnation of Partition, which finished forever the way of life lovingly described in "Climbing the Mango Trees."
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Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India (Vintage) by Madhur Jaffrey
Ellen Smart, February 14, 2008
A beautifully written description of life in pre-Partition India, guaranteed to tug at the heart strings of anyone who has lived in India and of anyone who has wanted to. Jaffrey includes recipes, too, which is a nice surprise. Also a surprise is her short, biting, bitter, well-deserved condemnation of Partition, which finished forever the way of life lovingly described in "Climbing the Mango Trees."(1 of 1 readers found this comment helpful)