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Cargando... El Mundo Incierto De Vikram Lall (2002 original; edición 2013)por M. G. Vassanji (Autor)
Información de la obraEl mundo incierto de Vikram Lall por M. G. Vassanji (2002)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Entre los miles de africanos de origen asiático que se vieron obligados a abandonar Kenia cuando este país proclamó su independencia, se encontraba la familia del autor de esta novela, que ha convertido su experiencia personal en el tema fundamental de su narrativa.Desde su exilio canadiense, sin más compañía que sus recuerdos, Vikram Lall rememora con emoción e intensidad su vida anterior, dejando en manos del lector el juzgar si ésta ha sido la de un hombre que tan sólo se adaptó a la única realidad posible o la de un ser condenable que se aprovechó de las circunstancias para beneficio personal.
In The In-Between World of Vikram Lall, [Vassanji] has written a powerful and compelling novel that explores many issues: public versus private lives; taking responsibility for one's decisions versus refusing to make decisions or take stands; and deciding who belongs in one's family and one's country It is part of Vassanji's great talent to demonstrate that the minor changes—unexpected love, sex, accusations—in the life of a very modest man are, in fact, transformations of history. The In-Between Life of Vikram Lall belongs in that commendable category between merely good and truly great. Vassanji ... offers up certain truths, thought-provoking, disturbing, but ultimately, and in a small way, hopeful. [Vassanji] captures both the minute ripples of individual human motivations and the broad sweep of the grim machine we call history. Premios
Sweeping in scope, both historically and geographically, Vassanji weaves a rich tapestry of vivid characters (real and imagined) in a Kenya poised between colonialism and independence.Vikram Lall, like his adopted country, inhabits an 'in-between world': between the pull of his ancestral home in India and the Kenya he loves passionately; between his tragic past in Africa and an unclear future in Canada; between escape from political terror and a seemingly inevitable return home . . . a return that may cost him dearly.A master storyteller, Vassanji intertwines the political and the personal - the rise of the Mau Mau in the last days of colonialism looms large over a plot centring on two love stories and a deep friendship. The result is a sumptuous novel that brilliantly explores the tyranny of history and memory, and questions the individual's role and responsibility in lawless times. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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