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Another wonderful, exotic saga from the author of Of Marriageable Age and Peacocks Dancing. Jyothi is growing up on the streets of Bombay when she is rescued by an affluent Western couple, their contribution to the starving of India. But she soon finds adapting to the orderly, middle-class English way of life, to school, and to rules and regulations hard. She feels a misfit. But then, by chance, it is discovered that she has a rare musical talent. Words might never be easy but music flows from her. The delicate girl, with her extraordinary looks and her unique talent , takes the world by storm. And the rootless Indian waif, Jyothi, becomes the international superstar, Jade. But she - and her family - discover the burdens of fame too, and Jyothi becomes torn between the urge to re-find her original roots and wanting to become that western girl, with that lifestyle, those men, those values. And running through her mind is the vision of a high, light room, looking out over green hills, a man's clear, candid gaze with the memory of a music of enchantment. The Speech of Angels, set in India, Germany and Britain, is a moving, emotional story of a remarkable girl, her loves and life, which looks at not only at the price of fame, particularly for a child-star, but at the pleasures and pitfalls of adapting across cultures and continents. Sharon Maas, whose writing is compared by many to Isabelle Allende's, has written her most magical book to date.… (más)
This was the book I was reading when the music stopped and we all went into lockdown for the pandemic. It took me a good six weeks to read when normally I would have averaged 10 days. I wasn’t sure whether it was the mental confusion caused by the world being turned upside down that stopped me concentrating, or just because I didn’t like the book much. I wondered too whether my enjoyment of reading was too interlinked with my enjoyment of sitting in cafes and watching the world go by. After all that’s where I do more than eighty percent of my reading normally. With no cafes and no world going by it started to feel like a chore to pick this book up, and I only read it when standing in line waiting to go into Tesco.
It took forever to get into, and even when I did it had a bitty feel - you would get used to a certain scenario and then, oops, someone would die and there would be a jump shift and the whole thing would move to a different time and a different country. I never felt we had the time to get used to any of them. Then we had the final stretch which I hated most of all - first the central character changes personality and becomes quite arrogant. Fine - no problem, and probably understandable, but then we are expected to sympathise with her as she indulges in some overwrought angst over her on-off love interest, finally culminating in an only-in-fiction coincidence to round the whole thing off. I liked the author’s depiction of India - Bombay in particular - and there were parts of the novel that I liked but they never lasted long enough to make this an overall enjoyable reading experience. ( )
Another wonderful, exotic saga from the author of Of Marriageable Age and Peacocks Dancing. Jyothi is growing up on the streets of Bombay when she is rescued by an affluent Western couple, their contribution to the starving of India. But she soon finds adapting to the orderly, middle-class English way of life, to school, and to rules and regulations hard. She feels a misfit. But then, by chance, it is discovered that she has a rare musical talent. Words might never be easy but music flows from her. The delicate girl, with her extraordinary looks and her unique talent , takes the world by storm. And the rootless Indian waif, Jyothi, becomes the international superstar, Jade. But she - and her family - discover the burdens of fame too, and Jyothi becomes torn between the urge to re-find her original roots and wanting to become that western girl, with that lifestyle, those men, those values. And running through her mind is the vision of a high, light room, looking out over green hills, a man's clear, candid gaze with the memory of a music of enchantment. The Speech of Angels, set in India, Germany and Britain, is a moving, emotional story of a remarkable girl, her loves and life, which looks at not only at the price of fame, particularly for a child-star, but at the pleasures and pitfalls of adapting across cultures and continents. Sharon Maas, whose writing is compared by many to Isabelle Allende's, has written her most magical book to date.
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It took forever to get into, and even when I did it had a bitty feel - you would get used to a certain scenario and then, oops, someone would die and there would be a jump shift and the whole thing would move to a different time and a different country. I never felt we had the time to get used to any of them. Then we had the final stretch which I hated most of all - first the central character changes personality and becomes quite arrogant. Fine - no problem, and probably understandable, but then we are expected to sympathise with her as she indulges in some overwrought angst over her on-off love interest, finally culminating in an only-in-fiction coincidence to round the whole thing off. I liked the author’s depiction of India - Bombay in particular - and there were parts of the novel that I liked but they never lasted long enough to make this an overall enjoyable reading experience. (