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Chargement... Bodies in Motion: Stories (2005)par Mary Anne Mohanraj
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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. I cannot speak for how accurately this book depicts Sri Lankan culture, but I can say that I could barely put it down. The book is a series of vignettes from a couple of Tamil families. It depicts the relationships between parents and children, aunts and nieces, and romantic and sexual partners. There is a lot of concern with how women support each other and make compromises to sustain both their own sexuality and their traditional culture. You might consider this somewhere between "chick lit" and "literary fiction." A number of the vignettes have sexual content, but nothing prolonged; it's a passionate book, perhaps even an arousing book in places, but not a masturbatory book. Mohanraj also writes about food, clothing, weather, all of the things of daily life, in dense but brief detail. One gets the impression of a lush, damp mind, full of biodiversity. Highly recommended. Some sexually explicit parts. 4034 Bodies in Motion Stories by Mary Anne Mohanraj (read 5 June 2005) The author of this book of short stories was born in Sri Lanka, and the book tells of various related Sri Lankan people, both there and in the US over the years from 1939 to 2002. There is much talk of rebels against Sri Lankan traditional ways, lots of unnecessary explicit sex, some weird and icky to read about. The prose is spare and polished and various accounts have some interest, though the intricate discussion of Sri Lankan food and cooking was a bore. Much modern fiction is seldom fun to read, and this book fits in that category.
In the end, though, Bodies in Motion is as sensuously fulfilling as the romantic escapades and rich curries in which Mohanraj's angst-ridden characters indulge. Mohanraj began the book as a dissertation, and there's something academic, almost mathematical, about the way the abundant plots weave together. Mohanraj's writing style is spare and piercing, and she exercises a sophisticated economy of language. Mohanraj never allows her characters to take the easy way out. A duality of ideas, traditions, and attitudes runs through the stories, and there is a struggle between the needs and the wants of the characters versus cultural and societal norms. ''Bodies in Motion" is a graceful, nimble book. With great care and affection, Mohanraj finds both beauty and lamentations in the disquieting, but revelatory, clash between custom and assimilation, between everything that came before and all that lies ahead. Prix et récompenses
Like the sweet heat of a palate-pleasing curry or the brilliant radiance of bougainvillea, the short stories in Mary Anne Mohanraj's Bodies in Motion will delight the senses and sensibilities. Her tales follow two generations of two families living on the cusp of disparate worlds, America and Sri Lanka -- their lives and ties shaped, strengthened, devastated, and altered by the emigrant-immigrant ebb and flow. Through stunning, effervescent prose, intimate moments are beautifully distilled, revealing the tug-of-war between generations and gender in stories sensual and honest, chronicling love, ambition, and the spiritual and sexual quests of mothers and daughters, fathers and sons. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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As each chapter unfolds, the perspective of the point of view character sheds more light back on earlier pieces of the greater story. This is definitely a book that will benefit from re-reading - but each story still feels complete unto itself, often featuring a sucker-punch to the emotions.
Absolutely recommended. ( )