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A carregar... Bhowani Junction (1954)por John Masters
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I read this about 60 years ago I suppose, and enjoyed it very much - It gave one a vivid picture of India and of the troubles around Partition, was exciting and I liked the idea of telling the story through the eyes of four different people. Sadly however the narrators are either European or Anglo Indian. I won't re-read the book as I fear I would find it very dated in its attitude the people of India, but I'll keep it in my library, unlike other India novels by the same author The plot of Bhowani Junction is told from three separate points of view with the narrative voices of Victoria Jones (the product of a mixed marriage of English and Indian parents); her one-time lover, Patrick Taylor, also from a mixed family and the main character, Rodney Savage, a colonel in the British Army in India. Their individual narratives involve the situation in India during the twilight of the Raj and the anticipation of the eventual turn-over of power from the British to the indiginous population. Also involved is the love story of first Victoria and Patrick, then Victoria and her Sikh co-worker, and finally Victoria and Savage. Strong points to Masters for his spot-on description of the racial and social divides of India, the plight of the racially mixed Anglo-Indians and the ever-present challenges of the Indian climate. A side plot involves an Indian terrorist and a plot to blow up a railway tunnel but most of the novel centers on Victoria and her attempts to come to terms with herself, her sexuality and her racial identity. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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World War II has finally played itself out, and the British are leaving India. Through this vortex is spun a fictional plot of terror and politics that illustrates all-too-well the curse that still plagues India today. You can almost smell the mixture of dust, oil, and human sweat as the train pulls into Bhowani Junction. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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