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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Wanted to see how a Shashi Tharoor book would be like. And took this book to experience that. Impressed by the language, and the flow of the book. Wanted to choose betewen 2 and 3 and I go for the higher one just because the book was an easy read. And the book kept the flow going without trouble. Like I told my parents when they asked about it - I feel this as a subtle way for Mr Tharoor to voice his opinion about things. And yes, I found some ( or maybe I should say , many ) interesting thoughts about India and its cultural diversity. Still not decided if I would want to pick up any of the other books from Shashi Tharoor. A rioting mob attacked & killed an American woman in a town east of New Delhi yesterday, a few days before she was to returnhome, the U.S.embassy announced. Priscilla Hart, 24, of Manhattan a volunteer with theNGO HELP-US, was beaten & stabbed to death in Zalilgarh tow, where she hadvolunteered her skills as a public health worker……..(Excerpt from the book)
At common law, a riot is a tumultuous disturbance of the peace, by threepersons or more assembling together of their own authority, with an intent,mutually to assist each other against any who shall oppose them, in theexecution of some enterprise of a private nature, and afterwards actuallyexecuting the same in a violent and turbulent manner, to the terror of thepeople, whether the act intended were of itself lawful or unlawful.
Reference: http://www.lectlaw.com/def2/q053.htm That’s the legal definition of the word. Now lets see where all can we use,Riot of emotions, Riot of Colors, laugh riot….or riot of blood? Riot of love??? When I had picked this novel (I postponed it several times because of the cover(picture attached below) & the theme) I was sure that being a politicalperson Shashi Tharoor would surely delve into the politics & the gorydetails. But after reading Five Dollar Smiles and a recommendation for otherbooks I picked this one on instincts and am glad that I did pick this one. This is the story of Priscilla Hart and as written above the bookis about her murder in the riot. She was found dead in an old Quila. It wasofficially declared that she was an innocent victim of the rioters. But was itreally that? Or was it the result of the illicit affair she was having with the local DM?Or was she murdered by an enraged husband who believed that by speaking to hiswife for abortion Priscilla had questioned his manhood. The subject of the book has the making of a heavy novel which can go into heavyduty preaching. There is ample scope in the subject to make the author take astand. He even has ample scope for blood & being gory.But there lies the beauty of the book. The narrative moves forward through
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Who killed twenty-four-year-old Priscilla Hart? This highly motivated, idealistic American student had come to India to volunteer in women's health programs, but had her work made a killer out of an enraged husband? Or was her death the result of a xenophobic attack? Had an indiscriminate love affair spun out of control? Had a disgruntled, deeply jealous colleague been pushed to the edge? Or was she simply the innocent victim of a riot that had exploded in that fateful year of 1989 between Hindus and Muslims? Experimenting masterfully with narrative form in this brilliant tour de force, internationally acclaimed novelist Shashi Tharoor chronicles the mystery of Priscilla Hart's death through the often contradictory accounts of a dozen or more characters, all of whom relate their own versions of the events surrounding her killing. Like his two previous novels, Riot probes and reveals the richness of India, and is at once about love, hate, cultural collision, the ownership of history, religious fanaticism, and the impossibility of knowing the truth. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Bei Ausschreitungen zwischen Hindus und Muslimen in einer indischen Kleinstadt verliert auch die 24jährige Amerikanerin Priscilla ihr Leben. War sie wirklich nur zur falschen Zeit am falschen Ort, wie die US-Botschaft bekanntgibt? Oder hat ein erzürnter Ehemann den Aufruhr genutzt, um sich unerkannt zu rächen? Denn Priscilla war Mitarbeiterin einer Hilfsorganisation und klärte indische Frauen über Geburtenkontrolle und ihre elementaren Rechte auf. Aber auch ihre Liebesbeziehung zu einem verheirateten Regierungsbeamten konnte ihr zum Verhängnis geworden sein. Vor dem Hintergrund religiöser Konflikte erzählt Shashi Tharoor von einer Liebe, die auf unüberwindbare Hindernisse stösst, in einem faszinierenden und widersprüchlichen Land, voll von Mythen und Sagen. ( )