Some books are just staying with you for longer, both through the story and the characters. I´ve heard and read so much about Alka Joshi´s storytelling but it took me such a long time to get to read her books. I wanted to read her bestselling The Henna Artist but got caught with other books from my never ending pile of TBRs. But Six Days in Bombay convinced me that I really missed reading beautiful stories.
Sona, the inquiring main character of Six Days in Bombay, is embracing against her will into an adventure around the world to fulfill the wish of a late painter, Mira Novak. A nurse when Novak arrived for a miscarriage, she is accused of malpraxis and forced to leave her job, her own source of revenue for her and her mother. As she is visiting Mira´s friends to bring them a last gift, Sona is trying to understand the painter´s mysterious death as well as prove her innocence. As expected, the journey will bring Sona closer to her real self and understand the world and women´s place in it.
Alka Joshi has a captivating way to create situations and characters part of a world apart. She is delving slowly into each character, dedicating all the time in the world to bring it closer to a reality. All the physical, emotional and mental details are added to each characters, who are finelly introduced to various ambiances, professional contexts - there are so many medical details that and various geographies.
Six Days in Bombay is a magic story, putting on the front women one step ahead of their times and refusing to accept the rules of societies ´consumed by the judgement of others´.
Now, I just need the time to read other books by Alka Joshi, particularly The Henna Artist.
Rating: 5 stars
Disclaimer: Book offered as part of the book tour but the opinions are, as usual, my own
Thanks for the blog tour support x
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