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A carregar... Leela's Book (2011)por Alice Albinia
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Lila, una bella mujer de misterioso pasado, vuelve a Delhi desde Nueva Cork, veinte años después, para asistir a la fastuosa boda de una sobrina de su marido. Su regreso desempolva hechos del pasado y vuelve a remover relaciones enfriadas por la falta de contacto y por la lejanía emocional. Enredos de familia con desenlaces sorprendentes, un soberbio retrato de la sociedad india actual, con las luces y sombras generadas por las diferencias de casta y religión, y el contrapunto irónico del narrador que no es ni más ni menos que Ganesh, el dios con cabeza de elefante, que mueve los hilos del destino en un intento por salvar a Lila, su amada heroína, de su taimado enemigo Vyasa. I didn't really enjoy this book. I just couldn't feel for its characters and mixed them up. I also struggled with the mythical Indian gods and avatars as fantasy is not my thing. I did learn about Indian culture and received a good insight into the history of the closeness in Indian families something I admire very much, sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
Bold and entertaining, Leela s Book weaves a tale of contemporary Delhi that crosses religious and social boundaries. Leela alluring, taciturn, haunted is moving from New York back to Delhi, where her return will unsettle precariously balanced lives. Twenty-five years earlier, her sister was seduced by the egotistical Vyasa. Now an eminent Sanskrit scholar, Vyasa is preparing for his son s marriage. But when Leela arrives, she disrupts the careful choreography of the wedding, with its myriad attendees and their conflicting desires. Gleefully presiding over the drama is Ganesh divine, elephant-headed scribe of the Mahabharata, India s great epic. The family may think they have arranged the wedding for their own selfish ends, but according to Ganesh it is he who is directing events in a bid to save Leela, his beloved heroine, from Vyasa. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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