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Carregando... Tutor of History (2001)de Manjushree Thapa
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. This centres around a general election campaign in rural Nepal and specifically on a few characters who are key to the election. These include Rishi, who tutors history in Kathmandu but returns to his home region to help with the campaign; Binita, a widow who married outside her caste and struggles to cope with her society's expectations and norms; Giridhar, an ex-bank manager who is the People's Party chairman and an alcoholic; and his friend Om, a retired gurkha who tries to look after him. The characters offer interesting insights into Nepali culture and the functioning of a new democracy in a developing country, but not at the expense of a strong narrative which binds the characters together. I really liked this novel, undoubtedly partly because of its evocations of the landscape I've visited recently, but also because it was a fascinating study of people living in a country that is very different from my own. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
The Tutor of History is an ambitious social saga, a compelling tale of idealism, love and alienation, set in contemporary Nepal caught between tradition and modernity. The events of the novel unfold against the backdrop of a campaign for parliamentary elections in the bustling roadside town of Khaireni Tar. At its heart the book is about four main characters: Giridhar Adhikari, the chairman of the People's Party's district committee, who suffers from a serious alcohol addiction and strange, violent manias; Rishi Parajuli, a lonely, under-employed bachelor and disillusioned communist who gives private tuitions in history to disinterested middle-class boys; Om Gurung, a former British Gurkha determined to bring love into every life in his hometown; and Binita Dahal, a reclusive young widow who runs a small tea shop and is careful not to demand of life more than the meagre pleasures it brings her. As the election campaign reaches its peak, the crisis in each character's life mounts, and the eventual rigging of the elections becomes a metaphor for the flawed, imperfect choices that ordinary people must make to get by in a world beyond their control. significant new voice from the Subcontinent. The first major novel in English to emerge from Nepal. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Manjushree Thapa was born in Nepal and was educated in Canada and the United States. She returned to Nepal to work in various NGOs and to translate Nepalese works into English. She has also worked as a journalist and written non-fiction. Her Forget Kathmandu is an account of Nepal’s past and present which lead to her exile. The Tutor of History is her first novel and the first major novel from her country. She is committed both to Nepal and to writing.
Public and private concerns merger seamlessly in Thapa’s writing. Involvement in the political campaign reveals and challenges who individuals really are. Yet politics in Nepal is full of graft and corruption. Thapa gives us bits of speeches from the various parties to show the illusionary promises they make. At one level the political campaign moves the plot, but the process is so flawed it is doubtful that the politicans can deliver much good. What matters more becomes the personal stories of men and women of a the small village drawn into the political campaign.
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