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Carregando... Before We Visit the Goddess (2016)de Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Three generations of Bengali women who, in turn, forsake their education, thereby limiting their prospects for independence and fulfillment. I read this upon returning from a trip to India, hoping to gain some insights into the lives of the women I encountered. Not so much, but the stories were interesting nevertheless. ( ) I read this in just a few days, and although it’s completely outside my comfort zone and very different from the usual books I pick up, I found myself oddly enthralled. I thought the book had a few issues: I wasn’t crazy about the shifting POV from 1st to 3rd and back again, since there didn’t seem to be any consistency. I also wasn’t happy with the episodic feel of the chapters (they read like short stories, complete in their own right), but that became less of an issue as I got further into the story. Despite those problems, the writing was smooth and engaging, and the characters incredibly complex and believable. I enjoyed that the events in the novel spanned generations. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni offers such a nuanced look at mother/daughter relationships, their complexities and difficulties, and the frequent inevitability of repeating our mothers’ patterns and mistakes. I was also glad to get a look into a culture I don’t know much about. I have a couple of close friends who are of Indian descent, and what I enjoyed most about this novel is that it helped me understand them better. I will be looking for more books from Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. A nice read about family through the generations. It was actually much more engaging than I thought and tied together well. It bounced around a bit to keep the read interesting. It was a bit predictable at times and not all loose ends were tied up, but the theme held tight and the messages were well received about family, judgements, and knowing who you are and what is important. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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"A beautiful, powerful new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of Sister of My Heart and The Mistress of Spies about three generations of mothers and daughters who must discover their greatest source of strength in one another--a masterful, brilliant tale of a family both united and torn apart by ambition and love. The daughter of a poor baker in rural Bengal, India, Sabitri yearns to get an education, but her family's situation means college is an impossible dream. Then an influential woman from Kolkata takes Sabitri under her wing, but her generosity soon proves dangerous after the girl makes a single, unforgivable misstep. Years later, Sabitri's own daughter, Bela, haunted by her mother's choices, flees abroad with her political refugee lover--but the America she finds is vastly different from the country she'd imagined. As the marriage crumbles and Bela is forced to forge her own path, she unwittingly imprints her own child, Tara, with indelible lessons about freedom, heartbreak, and loyalty that will take a lifetime to unravel. In her latest novel, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni explores the complex relationships between mothers and daughters, and the different kinds of love that bind us across generations. Before We Visit the Goddess captures the gorgeous complexity of these multi-generational and transcontinental bonds, sweeping across the twentieth century from the countryside of Bengal, India, to the streets of Houston, Texas--an extraordinary journey told through a sparkling symphony of voices"--
"A new novel from the author of Oleander Girl, a novel in stories, built around crucial moments in the lives of 3 generations of women in an Indian/Indian-American Family"-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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