Kaksi upeaa ja vaikuttavaa kirjaa. Toinen Intiasta, toinen Sudanista.
Megha Majumdar: A burning
Vikas Adam - Kertoja
Priya Ayyar - Kertoja
Deepti Gupta - Kertoja
Ulka Simone Mohanty - Kertoja
Soneela Nankani - Kertoja
Neil Shah - Kertoja
Tää oli melkoinen kirja! Tätä uppos kuuntelemaan, välillä tippui kärryiltä, välillä ärsyyntyi systeemeihin, että voiko noin oikeasti mennä tekemään. Useampi kertojan ääni: Jivan, PT Sir, Lovely ja myös kertoja itsessään, joka välillä vaihtui sekin. Ei kuitenkaan ollut sekava!
"For readers of Tommy Orange, Yaa Gyasi, and Jhumpa Lahiri, an electrifying debut novel about three unforgettable characters who seek to rise—to the middle class, to political power, to fame in the movies—and find their lives entangled in the wake of a catastrophe in contemporary India.
Jivan is a Muslim girl from the slums, determined to move up in life, who is accused of executing a terrorist attack on a train because of a careless comment on Facebook. PT Sir is an opportunistic gym teacher who hitches his aspirations to a right-wing political party, and finds that his own ascent becomes linked to Jivan's fall. Lovely--an irresistible outcast whose exuberant voice and dreams of glory fill the novel with warmth and hope and humor--has the alibi that can set Jivan free, but it will cost her everything she holds dear.
Taut, symphonic, propulsive, and riveting from its opening lines, A Burning has the force of an epic while being so masterfully compressed it can be read in a single sitting. Majumdar writes with dazzling assurance at a breakneck pace on complex themes that read here as the components of a thriller: class, fate, corruption, justice, and what it feels like to face profound obstacles and yet nurture big dreams in a country spinning toward extremism. An extraordinary debut."
Tää oli vaikuttava. Jotenkin tähän maailmaan uppos ja ihmetteli kaikkea. Loppu oli aika raju.
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