Book Review: The Master of Unfinished Things by Geet Chaturvedi (Translated by Anita Gopalan)
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Author and Translator Tarang Sinha reviews The Master of Unfinished Things (Penguin India, 2025), originally written in Hindi by Geet Chaturvedi and translated into English by Anita Gopalan.
Great art never runs the race for perfection or completeness.
The Master of Unfinished Things by Geet Chaturvedi, skillfully translated by Anita Gopalan, is a collection of memoirs, essays, musings, and quotations from both Geet Chaturvedi himself and other writers. Although it reflects on incompleteness, it’s fulfilling.
‘’The water dries, but the coolness lingers on the floor. The sun sets, but the warmth remains in the dark. You leave, but our conversation continues within me.’
Many thoughts linger long after the page is turned. The writer talks about various aspects of a writer’s life. Books, of course —his love for books and the vastness of the writer’s reading history is spilled across the chapters.
