Amulya Malladi
Teoksen The Mango Season tekijä
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Yleistieto
- Syntymäaika
- 1974
- Sukupuoli
- female
- Kansalaisuus
- India
- Asuinpaikat
- Mors, Denmark
- Koulutus
- Osmania University, Hyderabad, India (BSc|Engineering)
The University of Memphis, Tennessee, USA (MSc|Journalism)
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Serving Crazy with Curry: A Novel (Mothers &… Tekijä: Amulya Malladi
I couldn't get past the first 2 pages. The main character was talking to herself about killing herself. This inner dialogue was light as though suicide is a light matter. Just couldn't read it.
wonderful story that shows both sides of using a surrogate mother. Alternating between the surrogate and the biological mother. Making it more interesting is that the surrogate is an Indian woman living in poverty and the biological mother lives in the US (but is of Indian heritage).
The moments in this book range from funny to heart-wrenching to tantalizing (in the foodie sense). The story of a messed up Indian-American family is believable even in it's "she couldn't have!" moments. And the glimpses of the recipes made my mouth water.
I enjoyed reading about an immigrant in Europe, and especially Denmark, where I lived for a year as an exchange student years and years ago. Malladi gets a lot about the experience of being a foreigner--but, given the title, I expected there to be much more about language. There was a certain amount of Danish (which was fun for me), and some talk about what Danish sounded like to Raihana, the main character. But not much about how it feels to try and understand, the fatigue, and the unavoidable mistakes. Which was odd, since the book was about Raihana needing to learn Danish.… (lisätietoja)
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