SOURCE: "Playing Games with History," in The Women's Review of Books, Vol. XI, No. 3, December, 1993, p. 15.
In the following review, Gornick complains (hat in Mukherjee's The Holder of the World, the "boisterous Hannah does in no way suggest the brooding Hester Prynne, and what Mukherjee has to say about repressed Westerners and sensual Indians is painfully familiar, not at all passionate or clarifying."
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