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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I didn't really like it, so I am glad it was an ebook from the library. This is a bizarre demented tale. I'm not sure there is any redeeming value, just a series of pretty grotesque scenarios. I felt the author to be a tortured soul trying to express his insanity. Well, he did a good job of that, all right. I'll give it two stars for originality. ( ) A wildly creative story about a man's search for his missing arm (a symbol for a missing piece of his psyche/soul) ruined by poor characterization. The main character feels like one of those characters that are listed in film credits: "businessman 1" or "woman with hat". Or in this case "man with missing arm". I felt like I should be feeling more for him but couldn't because I knew so little about him. He even fails as a archetype of a one-armed man because every emotion he does have is so perfectly rationalized and explained that he has no noticeable, spontaneaous emotions. This the first book of Anosh Irani's I've ever read, and I'm hoping that this was just the wrong book to introduce me to his work because I found his writing style very fluid and readable and I thoroughly enjoyed his use of language and his imaginative view of the world. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Prepare to enter a world where the norms of human behavior--even the rules governing time and gravity--are set on their heads. This dark and wry fable begins with the narrator waking up and discovering he is missing an arm. He has no idea how he lost it or how to find it--but as he searches the chaotic, often surreal streets of Bombay, he meets an absurd and marvelous cast of characters who offer him clues: a woman selling rainbows, a beggar living under an egg cart, a coffin maker who builds finger-sized caskets, a giant who lives underwater, a homeless boy riding the rails. They all lead him to Baba Rakhu, master of the underworld, who will reveal the story of his lost arm--for a price. Funny and wise, violent and tender, The Cripple and His Talismans is an impressive debut. A bestseller in Canada, it has been compared to the works of Samuel Beckett, Lewis Carroll, and Salman Rushdie. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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