Amritesh Mukherjee
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He long desired to read a cricket novel where cricket is not some subplot relegated to the corners like some frivolous tea party you wouldn’t really mind missing out on. He wanted to read something that gave the same thrill as reading the live commentary of a game hanging on the threads of fate. He wanted something extraordinary. He wanted a victory, one that he found in the pages of this book.
Why live? Why go through the ordeal of life? Why travel paths filled with pain and suffering? It’s a dilemma humanity has faced and thought about, for centuries. Literature is replete with such conundrums, sometimes disguised as declarations, on the pointlessness of life and the inescapable tragedy of every moment.
Do I begin talking about how the original myths are more modern than anything that Miller writes here or do we look at the heteronormative themes present everywhere, or do we talk about the gorgeous irrationality that drips through these pages?
