I would like to take a shot at writing and researching on fiction eccentricity and the flight from reality in south asian fiction (are characters with strange hobbies and preoccupations reflective of a desire to avoid confronting a difficult reality?) this is obvious in rushdies midnights children but the same can be seen in all the books for instance the romantic egos of sea of poppies as we see in zacharary.
of course i do feel that the concpet of family life in south asian novels seems a bit more full. A bend in the river holds a huge undertone of escaping family ties while midnights children seems to show how all life is rooted on past family lines. Sea of poppies displays an attempt to avoid the fate of lineage and the need to do something different.
the escape from family in the south asian novel - in many European novels family conflicts are resolved or a character sets out in search of a family. In novels of the South Asian diaspora, the characters often seem to be seeking escape from family, whether by boarding a boat or by denying family connections or traveling far from the family with no hope of ever returning. Do these novels, often misread as celebrating traditional cuture, actually offer a resounding rejection of the South Asian family structure?
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