Reviews for ‘For the Love of a Man’

 

“Filled with rich imagery, beautiful prose, and an occasional

poem to more fully express overwhelming emotional moments,

this is the story of a woman torn between fulfilling the ideals

she was raised to believe in and answering an internal need to

experience life to greater depth.”

“When one is choked of all joy and possibility in life, is it

better to grab for the oxygen mask or allow oneself to die? In

presenting her story, the narrator here poses these questions

without apology or justification.”

 

RECOMMENDED (rating given to 10-20% books considered outstanding)

—US Review of Books

 

“Semi-autobiographical, this novel pulls on the author’s

experiences to build a rich, wholly developed character in

Amrita. She is a protagonist we see grow from the start of the

novel all the way to the last page. Her journey feels unique to

her particular circumstances, but at the same time, there are

bits and pieces most women could pull examples from their

own lives, understand and relate to and learn from.”

 

“This is a book which will be remembered long after finishing…”

—Pacific Book Review

 

“. . . a heart-rending story of love and strife.”

“Bajaj arrestingly evokes the splendors and deprivations of

India in the second half of the 20th century, and makes a

penetrating case for women forced into marriage and who

can’t even spend the salary that they earn. Although Rosy too

often finds “neither sympathy nor understanding” from the

men in her life, including, eventually, her own son, Bajaj all

but guarantees that she’ll find sympathy from readers as she

struggles with both her desires and the potential collapse of

her family.”

 

A passionate, absorbing story of love, rejection, and the burden of tradition.

—Kirkus Reviews

 

“The writer Amrinder Bajaj, takes us on a roller-coaster

journey of the typical Indian family and culture system. The

book provides fun, drama and satire all at the same time which

is bound to keep readers glued. But, after the protagonist is

married off to a stranger by her father, the real gist of the story

begins. Amrita’s life takes a turn from bad to worse. . .”

—Woman’s Era

(largest selling woman’s magazine in India)

 

“The book ‘For the Love of a Man’ is a heavily fictionalized

account of her life that lays bare taboo subjects like female

sexuality, exposing what right-thinking people would carry to

their graves with sealed lips.”

—Different Truths

(e magazine read in over 160 countries)

 

A tale of triumph

“Advocating feminism, the book revolves around how a woman

single handedly takes on worst of the situations head-on and

emerges strong enough to raise her children, stay in a muck-like

marriage, discharge her responsibilities and simultaneously

make a career. These lines of the book speak for themselves:

After elusive shadows, long I ran, never again, will I

crave the love of a man. From now on it just my dog

and me; and a book beneath a shady tree.

 

… had she found a shoulder to lean on, this book would have

ceased to exist.”

—Dailyexcelsior

(the largest circulated daily of Jammu and Kashmir)