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Chargement... The Parted Earth (édition 2021)par Anjali Enjeti (Auteur)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Lately, I've been running into a lot of fiction that draws on the partition of India—sometimes I look for it deliberately; at other times it pops up in places I don't expect. The Parted Earth is one of the titles dealing with partition that I chose deliberately. The chaos and violence of this time—and how little I knew about it—are incredibly disturbing, and also a necessary warning. At our worst, we humans can be terrible. And after those historical outbursts of horrible, we seem to move onto a bifurcated path: one that simultaneously disavows the violence, while also gradually building up to the next round of it. As I read about the religiously motivated violence at the time of the partition, I think about present-day India and the new wave of sectarian violence sweeping it. The Parted Earth is a powerful novel of the partition and its aftermath. It's a hard read. Not all the characters survive. Those that survive don't necessarily recover from their losses and trauma. Taking the long view, The Parted Earth offers a sliver of hope, but that sliver is narrow. If you want to face history, to learn from it and to see the power it has to shape us, this is a book you'll value. There are characters in it worth caring about and lessons we very much need at this moment. I received a free electronic review copy of this title from the publisher via EdelweissPlus; the opinions are my own. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"Spanning more than half a century and cities from New Delhi to Atlanta, Anjali Enjeti's debut is a heartfelt and human portrait of the long shadow of the Partition of the Indian subcontinent on the lives of three generations. The story begins in August 1947. Unrest plagues the streets of New Delhi leading up to the birth of the Muslim majority nation of Pakistan, and the Hindu majority nation of India. Sixteen-year-old Deepa navigates the changing politics of her home, finding solace in messages of intricate origami from her secret boyfriend Amir. Soon Amir flees with his family to Pakistan and a tragedy forces Deepa to leave the subcontinent forever. The story also begins nearly seven decades later and half a world away, in Atlanta. While grieving both a pregnancy loss and the implosion of her marriage, Deepa's granddaughter Shan begins the search for her estranged grandmother, a prickly woman who had no interest in knowing her. When she begins to piece together her family history shattered by the Partition, Shan discovers how little she actually knows about her ancestors and what they endured. For readers of Jess Walter's Beautiful Ruins and Min Jin Lee's Pachinko, The Parted Earth follows characters on their search for identity after loss uproots their lives. Above all, it is a novel about families weathering the lasting violence of separation, and how it can often take a lifetime to find unity and peace"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I loved this story but was a little frustrated with how it jumped back and forth in time. A good part of the story is set in 2017 with Shan, who we find is Deepa’s granddaughter, and as her life takes a turn for the worse, she finds herself alone leaving her plenty of time to think about her lack of knowledge about her family and how they came to be so separated from each other. Her grandmother, whom she hasn’t seen since she was a little girl, has always been cold and remote, but Shan decides she needs to find answers to the past and how it affected her grandmother, then her father and finally herself.
The Parted Earth is a family saga with the Partition as a catalyst that changed the direction of so many lives. I was a little taken aback at Deepa’s attitude, although she had lost a lot, she allowed the past to dominate her relationships and became a very lonely woman. On the other hand, I was drawn into Shan’s story and enjoyed how she and her friend pieced together the mystery of her heritage and found both joy and acceptance. ( )