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The novel has garnered critical praise from the likes of authors such as Benjamin Zephaniah and Daljit Nagra.
Considering its subject matter, a Watermelon, a Fish and a Bible is quite a gentle read, with the violence of war taking place off-screen and only presented in its aftermath. So says Circe, a sly, petulant, and finally commanding voice that narrates the entirety of Miller’s dazzling second novel. This ersatz-Fitzgerald mix of moralizing and mirror-looking (Jay McInerney shook and poured the shaker first) is very 80's—and in Tartt's strenuous version already seems dated, formulaic. But held captive in the house to which the women of Kyrenia have been brought, she can at last speak to them as an equal. I believe that it was one of the intentions of the author to make the book more interesting and to keep people reading so maybe it will work for others.Readers will relish following the puzzle of this unpromising daughter of the sun god Helios and his wife, Perse, who had negligible use for their child. My main qualm with this book was the odd sections of storytelling that felt like infodumping, it was a completely unexpected way of doing things that I didn’t like or see the need for.
The novel “A Watermelon, a Fish and a Bible” takes its inspiration from the lives of her parents that lived as refugees in England.Her first novel, A Watermelon, a Fish and a Bible, was longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. In retaliation, the Turkish soldiers rape the women and murder the men on a macro scale of revenge, even though these specific women have done nothing to them personally. The plot that revolves around these two women and the men they connect to has the nucleus of a good tale, but it gets muddied in its telling. I felt that the characters were not built as individual people but as building blocks for the setting . Petra’s investigations lead her to the many friends Nisha had working as nannies in the neighboring houses.