Книга: Age of Shiva (Возраст Шивы)

The book is about Meera who is brought up under the shadows of her more beautiful and attractive elder sister. In a stupid attempt to take revenge for the indifference shown by her family, she decides to marry her sister’s lover. It is Meera’s story of getting along with a new family with drastically different financial condition and social views, her strange relationship with her husband and more importantly the birth of her son. Meera’s relationship with her son is the essence of the book and is supposed to draw parallels to Parvati and Ganesha. Parvati creates Ganesha using sandalwood paste (or the muck on her body, there are different versions of the story), thus eliminating the need for a guy to create a new being. This in a way excludes Shiva from the isolated mother and son world. Meera is in a struggle to keep her son for herself and shows a reluctance to share him with her husband. There are subplots in the book which I thought act more as distraction than add meat to the plot.