A beautiful travelogue of a typical middle class Marathi manus. Very clever humour and has tons of linguistic jokes 馃槀 I would highly advise you to read this book indoors as it makes you laugh till your stomach hurts. Highly recommended 馃槏
A rib tickling pure maharashtrian humor that takes you on a ride in various parts of the UK. The way PL describes various places, it makes you feel as if you are present there. The vivid imagery is a treat to your reading senses! I was reading this book on an extremely silent bus, and suddenly burst out laughing. So be careful where you read this one.
It鈥檚 my first completed book from P L Deshpande. I had heard that his writings are humorous to the core marathi audiences as it resonates with them. Unfortunately I was not too exposed to those things being from a non marathi family, I wasn鈥檛 able to grasp many comments of the humorous situations. Nevertheless it鈥檚 a good book. Description of the journey taken is not at all boring. You can still imagine the differences from that era to current western world.
Though a travelogue, the book is actually much more than that. Pu.La has described London, Paris really beautifully with humor and his views about arts, cultures and life are simply amazing. A good, simple, funny book for anyone to read
Really nice travelogue. It was a long time after which I read a Marathi book. This is a very pleasant book which makes you laugh and keeps you smiling all the time. I like the author's interpretation of the places he visits. The way he describes the life in Britain during 60s was very interesting. He also visited D眉sseldorf (a city where I have lived), Krefeld (a city which I know well) and Paris (which I have visited). I enjoyed reading descriptions of these cities and how they were in the 60s. I must say the behaviour of the people, culture, modes of transports have changed in last 60 years and we can feel that while reading the book. I found the language of the author having a very nice flow and I like his comic timings and how he sometimes made funny comparisons with the indian thought/culture.
Ohh boy, what a chucklesome journey this was ! Being a fan of Purshottam Lakshman Deshpande's writing, Apurvai was one of my anticipated reads from his plethora of books! Pu La being Pu La, gave me a bundle of chuckles through all 249 pages and 4 days.
Apurvai is his travelogue about his tour to the west. Pu La has written about his true experiences and humour he found in almost everything; right from his clothes to the weather in the west. And the hilarity in daily life is so enjoyable and if you are lucky enough you relate it as well.
If you are reading Pu La 's any book for the first time, I suggest you to listen to him on YouTube first and then go for the books. By doing this you will get to know his way of expressing the jokes and automatically you will read the books as per his speech impediment because of which you'll enjoy it more. . . A great pick to lighten up your mood in just 295鈧� . Have you read any Pu La book? Which one is your favourite?
Apurvai is a rib-tickling travelogue of a middle-class Marathi man. Written by P.L Deshpande, giggles are guaranteed. The 'struggles' of a middle-class man to travel to England starting from basic things like getting the suit stitched / to booking the tickets, getting the prescribed vaccinations.. all these and many more are described in a very hilarious manner.
P.L captures the smallest of observations in a middle-class family and spins a funny tale around it. Even though the book was written many years back, some of the incidences find relevance even today to most of our 'relatives travelling abroad' episodes. That's the beauty of P.L's writing!
A hilarious travelogue written witfully by my favorite Marathi author. I found it very relatable as I moved to Germany few years back and went through the same, typical middle class Maharashtrian chaos :)