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A carregar... The Illicit Happiness of Other People (2012)por Manu Joseph
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Great read, thought-provoking, brilliant! ( ) A friend loaned me this book after she read it and commented on it. I'm afraid I didn't get as much out of it as she did; perhaps the fact that she was born in India gave her an ability to see further into the book than I, a Canadian WASP, could. Essentially this is a story of an Indian family living in genteel poverty. The father, Ousep, works as a journalist and drinks too much, the mother, Mariamma, is devout but disturbed, the elder son, Unni, fell or jumped from the balcony 3 years previously and the younger son, Thoma, is affected by all those around him. Ousep tried 3 years ago to determine why Unni committed suicide by talking to all his friends and anyone who knew him but came to closer to understanding his death. Just recently Ousep received a cartoon that Unni had completed on the last day of his life and sent in the mail where it got lost. This has led him to reopen his investigations but he does not show Mariamma or Thoma the cartoon. Mariamma might have been able to shed light on it because one page depicts her in the traumatic event that destabilized her mentally. Thoma might also have been able to understand as he knows about Unni's reaction to learning of the traumatic event. Eventually, through twists and turns Ousep grows to understand the background to Unni taking his life. I am still unclear if that makes him or anyone else in the family happier. Some day I will have to talk to my friend more about this book to understand its deeper meaning. The novel starts with a suicide, or rather, it begins three years after the suicide of 17 year old Unni Chacko and then we go back, with Oesup, his father, piecing together Unni’s life, looking at his days to find out what actually happened that led to the seemingly happy boy jump to his death. In the process, we also bear witness to the father’s anguish and disappointments, and the mother’s grief and distress. We also meet his younger brother Thoma who is navigating the strange world he inhabits, all wide-eyed, and trying to make sense of the why’s. To read more, click Around the World... One Book at a Time sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
Seventeen-year-old Unni has done something terrible. The only clue to his actions lies in a comic strip he has drawn, which has fallen into the hands of his father Ousep - a nocturnal anarchist with a wife who is fantasizing about his early death. Ousep begins investigating the extraordinary life of his son, but as he circles closer and closer to the truth, he unravels a secret that shakes his family to the core. Set in Madras in the 1990s, where every adolescent male is preparing for the toughest exam in the world, this is a powerful and darkly comic story involving an alcoholic's probe into the minds of the sober, an adolescent cartoonist's dangerous interpretation of absolute truth, an inner circle of talented schizophrenics and the pure love of a 12-year-old boy for a beautiful girl. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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