The God of All Things: A Story of Divine Intervention (Rajiv Immanuel's)

What One Reader Has Said 5.0 out of 5 stars A riveting story and a very enjoyable read. By rowan gosnal-tyler on amazon.co.uk on 14 November 2015 “This book is a superb read and very humorous at times. It is autobiographical and historical in content. Both an exciting read as you follow the lives of two of God’s Saints and see the providences of God working out in their lives. The author demonstrates the fact that he is widely read, and displays his knowledge of history, politics and economics and weaves this in and out of his autobiographical narrative with great finesse: a delight to experience. His style is enjoyable, as the reader is not just made to follow the life of the Author and Nimmi, the Author’s wife, but is also given bite size history lessons. Not only are you following their lives, but you are following it in context. Fraught with little asides, from the main narrative, of historical facts, information on: politics, economics, individuals (who impacted India, Britain and the life of the Author), culture and even the Arts; the reader is, therefore, launched into a plethora of facts and observations from the two different cultures of India and Britain as their journey unfolds. At the beginning of the narrative the author handles deep emotion in a way that captures the seriousness of the event, however, without lingering on the event so as not to be too emotive and detract from the purpose and main flow of the narrative, namely the providence of God in Nimmi’s life. This shows great care in handling and communicating to the reader the events that took place. The observations of the author and the asides from the narrative displays to British people what Indians think about the west. We take so many things for granted, and yet to many, Britain is seen as the land of opportunity. We see from the perspective of an Indian, how different Britain is to poorer countries and how fortunate we really are. However, it also displays how fallen human nature is the same, whether we are in a poor country or a rich country in the west. We may be advanced in many areas, but when certain restraints are taken away and things don’t go the way we want, then our fallen nature is manifested, whether in: backstabbing in an office environment, road rage and lack of courtesy, or modern western youth on a public bus spilling their profanity and complete lack of respect for those around them and for authority. Humans fallen nature manifests itself wherever we are. Although the narrative presents some sobering accounts it is, however, very comical at times especially when highlighting English idioms and things they do peculiar to their culture, compared to India. As an English person these mannerisms, peculiar to the English, did cause me to smile. Overall a riveting story and a very enjoyable read.”