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Chargement... The Tree Bridepar Bharati Mukherjee
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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. Well worth the read. The author weaves a tale of modern day technology with Indian Subcontinent under British rule (with British East India Company). Contrasts varied historical points of view that are still relevant today. Trade & capitalism considered paramount over native culture. ( ) This is the sequel to Desirable Daughters. Like that novel, this one is pretty strange. However, while that worked for Desirable Daughters, this time it fell flat in a lot of places. All the delving into speculation of what happened in the past didn't work as well as what was happening in the present. There were also too many unanswered questions. So, while I liked this book and it is worth a read, it was definitely not as good a read as Desirable Daughters. The story was well written overall but many things were left ambiguous, which I assumed was intentional. Weaving through the multiple narratives was well done but certain stories introduced into the plot seemed pointless to the overall story as they never really linked into the main events or led to conclusions by the narrator that her own tale never proved. The shifts in historical re-creation (letters, oral, memory, ghosts, stream of consciousness) while drawing attention to the incompleteness of historical narratives was also jarring because at times it demanded too much suspension of disbelief. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Bharati Mukherjee has long been known not only for her elegant, evocative prose but also for her characters--influenced by ancient customs and traditions but also very much rooted in modern times. In The Tree Bride, the narrator, Tara Chatterjee (whom readers will remember from Desirable Daughters), picks up the story of an East Bengali ancestor. According to legend, at the age of five Tara Lata married a tree and eventually emerged as a nationalist freedom fighter. In piecing together her ancestor's transformation from a docile Bengali Brahmin girl-child into an impassioned organizer of resistance against the British Raj, the contemporary narrator discovers and lays claim to unacknowledged elements in her 'American' identity. Although the story of the Tree Bride is central, the drama surrounding the narrator, a divorced woman trying to get back with her husband, moves the novel back and forth through time and across continents. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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