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From Sunetra Gupta, a haunting, dreamlike novel

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19930902
Author:Fiona Luis, Globe Staff

THE GLASSBLOWER'S BREATH

By Sunetra Gupta

Grove Press, 266 pp., $20

Just as a Rabindranath Tagore song was a source of inspiration for "Memories of Rain," Sunetra Gupta's remarkable first book, an exquisite 13th-century Jelaluddin Rumi poem informs "The Glassblower's Breath," a hypnotic tale that swirls around an Indian woman living in London.

The heroine is an intelligent, modern woman in the midst of mapping out her life, all the while testing family and friends, yearning for inner peace and battling raging demons. She remains nameless throughout the book, a curious device that ...

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