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India, fine anni Sessanta: Ammu, figlia di un alto funzionario, lascia il marito, alcolizzato e violento, per tornarsene a casa con i suoi due figli. Ma, secondo la tradizione indiana, una donna divorziata è priva di qualsiasi posizione riconosciuta. Se poi questa donna commette l'inaccettabile errore di innamorarsi di un paria, un «intoccabile», per lei non vi sarà più comprensione, né perdono. Attraverso gli occhi dei due bambini, Estha e Rahel, Il dio delle piccole cose ci racconta una grande storia d'amore che entra in conflitto con le convenzioni; ci mostra un Paese, dilaniato fra tradizione e modernità, dove esistono ancora gli intoccabili e leggi non scritte continuano a governare la vita di una donna; ci fa entrare in un mondo fatto di piccoli eventi, di cose ordinarie che sembrano di nessuna importanza, ma che sono cariche di un significato più profondo e in cui sembra rispecchiarsi una verità universale.
- ISBN: 8850259956
- Casa Editrice: TEA
- Pagine: 368
- Data di uscita: 15-04-2021
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That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less. Honestly, I wanted to like this one SO much but it was terrible. The novel follows a multi-generational Indian family in 1969. The matriarch, Mammachi, is their abused and blind grandmother. Ammu is the weary mother of fraterna
Okay, first things first. The God Of Small Things is a very very clever book, but what makes it exceptional is that it is both beautiful and crafty, a rare combination. This book has structure. Lots of it. She effectively creates a language of her own, a juvenile lucid language which complements the Leggi tutto
Small Perfection. 1969-93, Kerala, India. Rahel and Estha are two estranged early adult siblings, reunited again after decades apart. Rahel, vivacious, outspoken, and working hard abroad; Estha reclusive, near mute, and never far off home. As they fumblingly attempt to reconnect, flashbacks from t
Lush, gorgeous prose: reading The God of Small Things is like having your arms and legs tied to a slowly moving, possibly dying horse, and being dragged face-down through the jungle. I mean, like that, only nice. You can't stop seeing and smelling everything, and it's all so foreign and rich. Potent Leggi tutto
Arundhati Roy - image from Slate This is a wonderful, image-rich novel told over several generations of a family in India. The central event is the death of a young girl, and how racism, and petty, CYA politics, results in the death of an innocent for a crime that was never committed. The central cha Leggi tutto
I'm all by myself here, but what the hell. This reads like a graduate writing class exercise blown from 20 pages to 300. The metaphors, while occasionally fresh and unexpected, are tedious and frequently stand in for something that could be much less complex. The writing is self-conscious and preciou Leggi tutto
This is, without a doubt, the single worst book ever written. It makes virtually no sense, jumping from past to present tense so often and without warning that you have no idea whats going on. Out of nowhere the writer mentions filthy disturbing sexual things for no reason. I could not even find a st Leggi tutto
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