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Ladataan... The Five Dollar Smile: And Other StoriesTekijä: Shashi Tharoor
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. The Five Dollar Smile… What can a statement like that mean… A smile is worth Five dollars or a smile bought for Five dollars or a smile which can fetch five dollars? This collection of short stories starts with the story of Joseph, an orphan who has become the poster boy for HELP. He has modeled for the “All it takes is five dollars a month to bring a smile on this face” campaign. The story is an heart wrenching one and paves the way for very humane collection of short stories. Shashi Tharoor has written the stories using his real experiences. The timeline of the stories ranges from 1978 – 1981. The issues covered range from
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This touching and funny collection of stories showcases Tharoor's daunting literary acumen, as well as the keen sensitivity that informs his ability to write profoundly and entertainingly on themes ranging from family conflict to death. In the title story--written in a lonely hotel room in Geneva soon after the author began his work with the United Nations--a young Indian orphan is on his way to visit America for the first time, and his anguish and longing in the airplane seem hardly different from those of any American child. Tharoor's admiration for P. G. Wodehouse makes "How Bobby Chatterjee Turned to Drink" a delightful homage, while "The Temple Thief," "The Simple Man," and "The Political Murder" bring to mind O. Henry and Maupassant. His three college stories, "Friends," "The Pyre," and "The Professor's Daughter," are full of youthful high jinks, naïve infatuations, and ingenious wordplay. "The Solitude of the Short-Story Writer" is a smart, self-aware, Woody Allen-esque exploration of a writer's conflicted relationship with his psychiatrist. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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They are not quite as bad as that, but they are far from the quality of his novels. Here and there a keen insight shines through, and a concern for a changing India is evident in just about every story.
I found that 1974 seems to be when Tharoor hit his stride. The stories earlier than that (probably 2/3 of the ones in this collection) are a bit awkward and amateurish, but the ones after that tend to be pretty decent.
The one that stands out the most is "The Solitude of the Short-Story Writer", the only story in the collection that seems to shake India off and take place in any Westernized society. There is an attempt to examine the craft of writing, and what drives writers. Tharoor may have been too green at the time to answer these questions, but the asking of them is handled pretty well. ( )