Andrew Kozlov từ Cofradía, Nicaragua

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12/22/2024

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Andrew Kozlov Sách lại (11)

2018-10-17 10:31

Hoàng Lê Nhất Thống Chí Diễn Nghĩa Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Ngô Gia Văn Phái

What is it that makes a family? Is it the blood ties between the members--father to son, mother to daughter? Or is it something else--a shared experience, a learned appreciation, a choice? This is one of the questions explored within Gowda's Secret Daughter, but this novel is one rich in so much more as well. Secret Daughter is a beautifully written novel told from three points of view--Somer, the American mother's; Asha, the adopted daughter's; and Kavita, the biological mother's. But what's more, this novel explores the culture of India--the fact that so many female children are killed due to the practice of either gender-specific abortion or gender-specific infanticide. Kavita and her husband are a poor couple trying to eke out a living in their small village town. They realize they will only ever be able to support one child. Unfortunately, Kavita produces a daughter--whom they will never be able to appropriately dowry in accordance with Indian custom. So, Kavita's husband makes a horrible choice--infanticide. When Kavita's second child is likewise a daughter, Kavita cannot bear the thought of her being subjected to the same fate, so she and her cousin smuggle the baby away to an orphanage in Mumbai. Somer is married to Krishnan, a man who immigrated from India for medical school in the States; however, after several miscarriages, the couple has just learned that Somer is unable to have children. What to do? Adopt from an orphanage in Krishnan's homeland. So begins a saga that spans twenty years, two continents, and many misunderstandings. I loved this novel because the story that it wove seemed quite plausible--the questions Asha seeks to answer about her biological parents are common ones for adoptees, and the cultural tensions between Somer and both Krishnan and Asha seem to me to be legitimate ones. After all, how does one smother one's native culture as thoroughly as Krishnan seems to do? But what I loved was Asha's quest to find answers and a cultural heritage, to understand who she was as an individual. Her quest takes her into the slums of India, a very separate India from the one in which her father was raised and in which her grandmother still lives. In it, the reader is shown just how difficult it is to survive, yet there is a grace demonstrated by the women within this society that astounds me. Beautiful novel--a definite recommend.

Người đọc Andrew Kozlov từ Cofradía, Nicaragua

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.