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husband and I read thispage book aloud while we were traveling and enjoyed it very much, We enjoyed learning about the Baghdadi Jewish community in Calcutta, Cochin and Darjeeling in India in the late's the customs, the history, the relationship with the Hindu population and the role that the Sassoon family played with the opium trade to China.
The main character, Dina is a very fascinating figure, We laughed at the Harlequinesque scenes of sex and romance: "his bronzed body and chiseled chin", etc since it was not effective nor necessary for the likability of the characters and plot.
We enjoyed the intimate portrait of the events which unfolded in India and China, They were vividly drawn and compelling, Gay Courter's "Flowers in the Blood"is a wellresearched novel about India's lucrative opium trade during theth century, and a powerful Jewish family in the business.


Based on actual events, Courter tells the story of the Sassoon's family through the eyes of eldest daughter Dinah, Beginning with the murder of her mother when Dinah is a small child and wending through adolescence, a disastrous arranged marriage and subsequent divorce, another marriage and becoming a successful businesswoman in her own right, Dinah's story is universally appealing.


There are some frank discussions of the opium trade, which was legal at the time, and addiction, and some sexual situations, Nothing was gratuitous, and the situations advance the story line well,

Highly recommended for those who enjoy historical fiction, Interesting story about opuim trade in the earlyfrom a Jewish family in India At a very young age Dinah Sassoon finds her mothers body brutally murdered by her lover and as a result Dinah's position in her family and community is forever changed.
Being the daughter of a cheating, weak willed, opium addict who came to her ends in such a violent way leads the rest of her Jewish community to see her in a different light.
Her life has been touched by the evileye and she is likely to follow in her mothers footsteps, Poor unmarriageable Dinah has to fight for her happiness, She lives with the memory of her mother whom she dearly loved and the knowledge that her killer is still free while she also struggles with the fact that her family makes its wealth from the opium trade, a drug that helped lead to her mothers downfall.


This book really grabbed me from the very first page and kept me in its clutches until the very last, The characters are well developed, their struggles are very real and understandable, The characters

grow and change as the story progresses, The story is tightly plotted and the narrative really moves along, not a dull spot in sight! I can't say enough good things about how much I enjoyed reading this!

Buuuuuut.
. . This is one of the books where the ending just came too easily, The story is written in first person from Dinahs point of view looking back on her life, and you are told right from the beginning that she gets revenge on her mothers killer.
When it happens, its just so anticlimatic, It's almost incidental to the rest of the story, Throughout the story you are kind of lead to believe that all the events she goes through, and all the experience she gains will help her bring her mothers killer to justice.
But that's not how it happens, its almost accidental and Dinnah really had next to nothing to do with it other that she is there when it happens.
And then all of a sudden her mothers killer being brought to justice somehow magically wraps up some of the other loose ends at the end of the book.
The fact that this guy dies somehow helps bring an end to the family's business negotiations, It's explained, but it just seems too easy, They were having all this trouble negotiating with the Chinese and all of a sudden because this one guy is dead everything falls into place! Poof! Even her marriage struggles are all resolved all on their own without her really having to communicate with her husband.
She just goes on a business trip and comes home to a perfect marriage! Poof!

It's a solidstar read! I nearly have itanyway! Great read! I enjoyed the history of the Jews living in India.
I enjoyed the history about the opium trade, Dinah is a wonderful character with strengths and weaknesses, Just a wonderful book! Really! I can't say enough how much I enjoyed reading this! I just wish the ending was a bit stronger, It would have been nice if the events of Dinahs life had been what helped the story come to an end instead of it just kind of happening around her.
A Jewish family in India Fuck yes, An enjoyable saga that held my interest throughout its many pages, At times the narrative was overly wordy, but didn't detract from my enjoyment of the story, I also learned a lot about the Jews of India, this is an interesting story about Jews in India and the opium trade, it is the story of the very wealthy sasoon family, i liked the author's writing style, i would have given itbut i felt it was too long and found the constant explanations of the indian words a bit annoying, I absolutely loved this book, It was a book club choice and I really wasn't interested in reading it, However, I started it, and before long it was difficult to put it down, It's a lengthy book, filled with wonderful details, and I learned more about the opium trade in lateth century India than I ever knew I would be interested in.
I am very impressed with the author's in depth research of Jewish family lives in Calcutta during this time, The story is based on an actual murder in Calcutta, and the characters are developed around this shocking event, The reader is immersed in Dinah's life as we journey with her from her lonely childhood to her eventual head of a very successful family, We see her being rejected as a suitable wife for the sons of Calcutta's desirable Jewish families, to an unsatisfactory marriage ending in divorce, to her finding the love of her life.
It is a book that stays with me, even now, Today I ordered several more books by this author and look forward to reading more of her work, I loved this book. A sweeping saga filled with fascinating history and intriguing characters, I never knew about the Jews of Calcutta, I really didn't want it to end a beautiful, albeit, long tale of the Jews in Victorian India and the opium trade, Romance, adventure, feminism, culture, and religion, I learned an incredible amount about a time and a place I knew little to nothing about, loved it. writing style and story line!! Loved the story, Books was way too long and too wordy, Nope. Didn't finish. Bestselling author Gay Courter outdoes herself with this exotic, richly textured epic novel about a Jewish family in Victorian India, Colorful and compelling, it brings to life a world never before portrayed as it tells the dramatic and stormy tale of Dinah Sassoon's quest for love and justice.
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