Review of Fire in the Mountains (2022) by A.o. Scott for The New York Times — 19 May 2022
Its criticisms of patriarchal authority, bureaucratic corruption and superstition in rural India are sharp and unsparing, but its political themes are embedded in a humanism that is at once expansive and specific.
The characters don’t deliver a message; their lives are the message.
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This review of Fire in the Mountains (2022) was written by A.o. Scott and published by The New York Times on 19 May 2022.
Fire in the Mountains has generally received positive reviews.
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