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Carregando... A State of Freedom (2017)de Neel Mukherjee
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I was really pretty disappointed by this audibook. Contrary to what the subtitle says this is not a novel, but a collection of short stories. I kept hopting they would all come together in the end, but alas no. One of the characters from teh second story takes a leading roll for the last story, but nothing satisfactory occurs. Most of the stories just kind of end, no climax, and certainly no happy ending. From rich man's kid dies, to servant girl gets fired, to someone MIGHT have found out wear the dancing bear guy lives. The best story was the second story about an Indian guy who lives in Britain who gets his employer to pay for his annual trip home under the guise of writing an authentic Indian breakfast cook book travel to each state and sampling their unique cuisine. It was interesting and made me hungry but alas no good ending. > Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Mukherjee--letat-libre/1157337 > A L'ÉTAT LIBRE, de Neel Mukherjee. — Critique littéraire, Neel Mukherjee est né en 1970 au Bengale occidental. À l’étal libre nous offre encore un bijou littéraire par son style et l’extrême finesse des narrations qui tout en étant indépendantes les unes des autres, finissent par se répondre à la toute fin du récit. Qu’est ce qui relie un père et son fils de six ans, une très jeune employée de maison, un villageois et un ours au parcours improbable, la guérilla naxalite… l’exil, la pauvreté, la quête de sens. Des vies mêlées, des croisements, des fractures mais aussi des espoirs… Éditions PIRANHA. (Isabelle MORIN-LARBEY et Shamms TCHAO) —Les Carnets du Yoga, (385), Mars 2020 sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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In this stunning novel, prize-winning author Neel Mukherjee wrests open the central, defining events of our century: displacement and migration. Five characters, in very different circumstances-from a domestic cook in Mumbai, to a vagrant and his dancing bear, to a girl who escapes terror in her home village for a new life in the city-find out the meanings of dislocation and the desire for more. Set in contemporary India and moving between the reality of this world and the shadow of another, this novel of multiple narratives-formally daring, fierce, but full of pity-delivers a devastating and haunting exploration of the unquenchable human urge to strive for a different life. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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I did visit India for 2 weeks in my early 20's, and was completely unprepared for the Delhi streets. Reading this book made me look back on my experience and wonder how much of the ceremony I was there for was another attempt to bilk the white visitors, as profit to an upper caste man.
The first story, about a father's sense of dissociation when he has brought his young son to tour his homeland of India, was not that interesting, but as the book progressed and presented more stories about the impoverished people of India, I began to wonder if there was some meaning in presenting this experience of an emigrant Indian first. Definitely need the print book to study this, as I also wonder how much of this story is autobiographical.
The story of a man who trains a bear did not engender much sympathy for the man, but as I heard another story of a man trapped in paying off debt, I began to understand the motivation for the bear story.
The story about Indian cooking, and the descriptions of food in some of the other stories, had me longing to eat them.
What seemed to be a long story (or maybe it was 2 related stories) about a tribal girl who is raped and beaten by the local police and later joins guerillas connected in my mind with the treatment the native persons in my country also receive. There is no way we can stand as 'holier than thou' and condemn practices in another country if we can't take care of our own.
Shortly after reading this, I picked up a missionary's book which was essentially describing life in modern India to induce guilt and donations from Euro/American readers. It made a big deal about the caste system limiting people. The book did not inspire me, but did cause me to ponder how much the caste system is still active in India. Mukherjee barely mentioned any sense of caste by the people in his stories; one just picks up on a vague impression of the Indian emigrant likely being and upperclass educated person, versus the barely literate forest dwellers. Based on our American culture it was easy to see the difference as economic classes (which play a major role here) as a religio-oppressive caste belief. ( )