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Babyji | 
 enlarge | Author: Abha Dawesar
Publisher: Anchor
Category: Book
List Price: $13.95
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Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 283319
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.2 x 1
ISBN: 1400034566
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9781400034567
ASIN: 1400034566
Publication Date: February 8, 2005
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Product Description
Sexy, surprising, and subversively wise, Babyji is the story of Anamika Sharma, a spirited student growing up in Delhi. At school she is an ace at quantum physics. At home she sneaks off to her parents’ scooter garage to read the Kamasutra. Before long she has seduced an elegant older divorcee and the family servant, and has caught the eye of a classmate coveted by all the boys.
With the world of adulthood dancing before her, Anamika confronts questions that would test someone twice her age. Ebullient, unfettered, and introducing one of the most charming heroines in contemporary fiction, Babyji is irresistible.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 13 more reviews...
 Couldn't put it down April 27, 2008
The mark of a good novel is its ability to expand your mind while entertaining and teaching you. This book stands up to all three of those conditions very well. Entertaining, very. Captivating and definitely a page-turner. Lots of drama, for those of us who enjoy it, sexuality, some humor, well-written. Educational in its examination of Indian culture. Thought-provoking through its exploration of sexuality in its many forms. I found myself less than sympathetic toward the protagonist, and it was sometimes to the point where I disliked her. However, we can learn a lot more from those different to us than we can from those who are the same. The ideas presented in this book were quite insightful. A great coming-of-age tale.
 Daring but disappointing June 15, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Babyji is the story of Anamika, 16, as she discovers herself and her sexuality through a number of relationships - one with an older woman, India, another with her young live-in servant Rani, and one with Sheela, a classmate of hers. I didn't find the story particularly interesting and I felt the story lacked character development and real "events" - all that happens is that Anamika is spending her days going from one girl to another without any kind of depth apart from a couple of interesting thoughts per chapter which are not developed any further. Each character would have benefited from being further developed and because Anamika doesn't focus on any of them, neither does the book.
I read 3/4 of this book before giving up. There are more interesting stories about relationships between women in books such as Pages for You.
 Brilliant book October 18, 2006
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I think most intellectually precocious girls are also sexually precocious, at least in their fantasies - watch out for those bookish girls, when they decide to unleash their sexuality it's usually intense.
The narrator of Babyji is Anamika, an Indian girl in her final year of high school who unleashes herself in a big way. She seduces an older woman, and the family servant, and her friend at school.
Anamika struck me as a real archetype, a girl with a psychological profile that I've noticed in a number of my queer girl friends. She's a highly intelligent oldest child who has probably grown up thinking of herself as a boy and a girl. Anamika wants to get a good job and earn money so that she can support a wife.
Anamika friend's father recognizes that Anamika is sexually precocious and propositions her. She may or may not be attracted to him - she's got a lot on her plate with her three female lovers - but she takes his advice and reads Lolita. She loves the book, but to my utter delight she doesn't identify with Lolita, she identifies with Humbert. Anamika feels the guilt of her own taboo attraction to girls. There is something brilliant in these reversals that says so much to me that is true about this character archetype.
I went to a reading by Dawesar at Shakespeare's Books here in Paris for her new book, That Summer in Paris, and I'm happy to report that she's a real hottie in person.
This is a brilliant book. I keep thinking about Anamika. Read the book and see if she sticks around in your head too.
Totally Crazy & Hilarious Read July 28, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I could totally relate to Babyji...she's a hilarious character and completely frivolous at that too!
Abha has built wonderful characters befitting her ability to tell a funny tale.
I seriously hope there is a sequel to this one! :)
Great!!! June 12, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Great plot. A neat and very well written description of the characters' feelings and of the sorrounding Indian society. A real masterpiece!
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