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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. The best thing about Aerogrammes; a small collection of Tania James short stories, is the large variety of main characters. For the most part they all revolve around Indian families and the ways in which they attempt to hold onto their Eastern ways while still embracing the foreign American culture. We hear about the struggle from all sorts of different voices. Male,female, the old, the young. Even a chimpanzee and a ghost ! Now how do you top that ? ( ) An American family adopts a chimpanzee from Sierra Leone, but has to ultimately deal with its humiliation of being in a zoo. In 1910, Gama, the champion wrestler from India visits London to fight challenge matches there and ultimately discovers that it is a city which is mysteriously absent of challengers and where athletes are actors and ring is the stage. A woman marries a ghost and he survives in the physical world with his intangible presence. Thus go few plot lines in Tania James’s impressive collection of short stories – Aerogrammes. Read the complete review at http://thebookoutline.blogspot.in/2012/11/book-review-aerogrammes.html sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"A collection of short stories set in locales as varied as London, Sierra Leone, and the American Midwest that captures the yearning and dislocation of young men and women around the world. In "Light & Luminous," a gifted instructor of Indian dance falls victim to the vanity and insecurities that have followed her into middle age. In "Tonto and the Undertaker," a widower copes with his loss by cruising Kentucky highways and burying roadkill. In "The Scriptological Review" a damaged young man obsessively studies his father's handwriting in hopes of making sense of his suicide. And in "What to Do with Henry," a white woman from Ohio takes in the illegitimate child her husband left behind in Sierra Leone, as well as an orphaned chimpanzee who comes to anchor this strange new family. Tania James once again introduces us to a host of delicate, complicated, and beautifully realized characters who find themselves separated from their friends and families and communities by race and pride and grief"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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