Reviews round-up
Saraswati
by Gurnaik Johal
3 of 3 critics positive
5 reviews: 1 rave, 2 positives; 2 not stating a verdict in public
What the critics said
Rave
Read the review ↗“deserves a very wide readership”
Saraswati by Gurnaik Johal: A novel of immense range that deserves a very wide readership
Positive
Read the review ↗“an ambitious Indian panorama”
Saraswati by Gurnaik Johal review – an ambitious Indian panorama
Positive
Read the review ↗“ambitious, continent-crossing debut novel”
Gurnaik Johal’s Saraswati: myth and politics in modern India
Verdict not stated
Read the review ↗Adam Mars-Jones · ‘I’m not a radical, Dad’: Gurnaik Johal’s ‘Saraswati’
Verdict not stated
Read the review ↗“clamorous, inventive and polyphonic novel”
In This Novel, a Mythical River Returns to an India in Crisis
Verdicts are read from each outlet's own headline and summary; quotes are their words, credited and linked. Where a paywalled summary does not give the critic's view, we say so rather than guess. How it works.
