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A carregar... From a Crooked Ribpor Nuruddin Farah
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. His first novel, from a woman’s point of view—a damning indictment of the place of women in Somalia. And, as compelling a story as it is, the book just never quite grabbed me. But definitely someone to keep reading. ( ) This is a quick book, but also a strange one in the end. Marketted as a book about a girl named Elba who must try to retain her identity in a patriarchal world, it seems to fall short of this goal since, simply, Elba doesn't seem to Have much of an identity. Her confusion, whether cultural or individual, leaves her far short of being able to fight for a persona that she doesn't have beyond moving from moment to moment at her own preference. On the whole, I'd have to say that I found the book an entertaining diversion, but it also seems to be something of a game. In the end, I felt sympathy for nearly every character But Elba, and that's either a masterful turn of the author's, or a mistake--I'm still not sure which. It is, though, the ending note which keeps me from recommending this work or even finding it memorable. It seems more of an experiment, and one that just falls short. From a Crooked Rib tells the story of Ebla, a Somali girl, from the period in her life when she was roughly eighteen years following her for two years. The story starts out with Ebla running away from her village and her duties of the sole caregiver for her extremely old grandfather, and follows her path through a series of attempts of different folks who are providing for her trying to sell her as a bride to some unknown man for a dowry. Ebla ends up in a marriage of sorts, and in this situation continues to confront the themes she opines on throughout the book: why society elevates men above women and different standards between men and women are the main themes, with a smattering of debate on female circumcision, how she may be different from other African women, village life vs. city life in Africa. Overall a short, taut, almost adventure story of a precision thinker struggling with her take on injustices as she struggles to survive and thrive in areas of desolate poverty. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
Written with complete conviction from a woman's point of view, Nuruddin Farah's spare, shocking first novel savagely attacks the traditional values of his people yet is also a haunting celebration of the unbroken human spirit. Ebla, an orphan of eighteen, runs away from her nomadic encampment in rural Somalia when she discovers that her grandfather has promised her in marriage to an older man. But even after her escape to Mogadishu, she finds herself as powerless and dependent on men as she was out in the bush. As she is propelled through servitude, marriage, poverty, and violence, Ebla has to fight to retain her identity in a world where women are "sold like cattle." Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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