Ambai
Teoksen A Kitchen in the Corner of the House tekijä
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Yleistieto
- Muut nimet
- Lakshmi, C.S.
- Syntymäaika
- 1944
- Sukupuoli
- female
- Kansalaisuus
- India
- Syntymäpaikka
- Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
- Asuinpaikat
- Mumbai, India
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De haute lutte Tekijä: Ambai
Recueil de nouvelles qui nous plonge dans le culture indienne et notamment nous interroge sur la place de la femme en Inde mais qui s'applique égelement à l'ensemble de notre société. Les héroïnes sont à la recherche d'une liberté qui leur semble refusée.
Insightful. Two stars for that. Story touches upon a social aspect. Story itself wasn't entertaining.
It's rare that I give a book of short stories five stars. This one is a cohesive whole. Beautifully translated from Tamil by Lakshmi Holmstrom, Ambai's stories are gentle but astute slices of Indian life. There is a fierce feminism & egalitarianism in her work, attentive to social injustice. Brimming with references to Tamil culture and Indian epics and myths. Lovingly rendered natural landscapes. Generous and compassionate in its depiction of humanity.
Ambai, one of the finest modern Tamil short-story writers, is much read, discussed and written about, and loved for the wit, innovative story-telling, and lyrical grace of her writing. Breaking traditional modes of expression in terms of language and content, In a Forest, a Deer recounts the saga of Tangam Athai, whose husband remarried because she could not bear him a child and Chinthiru's journey to the forest alongside the mythological tale of Sita's exile to underscore Chinthiru's unique search for self-identity. Winner of the Hutch Crossword Book Award 2006, this collection is an enduring testimony of the ideology and belief that Ambai's writings affirm-the need to know and be in touch with a stable or 'grounded' self that allows fluidity and change in modern times of travel, dislocation, and exile.… (lisätietoja)
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