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Longlisted for the 2007 Man Asian Prize, a gripping debut novel about an Indian mining disaster as seen from the perspectives of the miners, their families, and the officials charged with rescuing them. Written by a former director of the Indian Ministry of Coal, and loosely based on the disastrous flood at the Bagdihi colliery in 2001, which trapped and killed dozens of miners, The Sound of Water is written with both an insider's authority and rare literary style. Its suspenseful narrative is presented from three perspectives: The old miner struggling to save himself and his coworkers hundreds of feet below the surface of the earth; the company and government officials charged with managing the rescue efforts, but who are seemingly far more concerned with managing their careers; and, finally, the miners' families, who stand to gain life-changing sums as a consequence of their losses. A searing fictional exposé of the appalling conditions that Indian miners endure and a moving story of the spiritual strength and conviction that enables one to survive against the odds, The Sound of Water dares to inaugurate "alternate realism," a fresh genre very different from the soul-baring autobiographies and epic family sagas that have characterized so much of recent Indian fiction.… (más)
For being Sanjay Bahadur first book I feel he did a fabulous job. Well written, captivating and strong. The author unfolds a story about of a small India community of people and a life only coal miners experience down deep under the folds of dirt and rocks through the tunnels of their uncertain fate.
Sanjay Bahadur uses vignettes to weave through the creation of his novel to relate both the characters complicated plot of Indian life as well as the dangers of the government officials of their country. I liked the way he was descriptive and informative. I felt it made the story more intriguing. I believe he can be a promising writer for his readers.
It was a quick read with a lasting impression. I do think he could have added more to the story at the end but it still was a great novel and I highly recommend it. ( )
Some books are great because they take you to a place you will never go, other books introduce you to people or a life you will never experience. Fewer can do both, but the Sound of Water accomplishes just that.
Small vignettes weave the story through a coal mine accident deep in India. This book is both character study of people from the various, complicated strata of Indian life as well as a warning against materialism and the dangers the "beast" of a bureaucracy. The sections on the actual mining operations are fascinating and manage to keep up interest.
Beautifully written and fraught with philosophy, it is not necessarily an easy read, mostly because its English is Indian. Still, once I picked up the rhythm I breezed through it and it was well worth the effort. ( )
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
There was neither non-existence nor existence then: There was no realm of air, no sky beyond it. What covered in, and where? and what gave shelter? Was water there, unfathomed depth of water? Death was not then, nor was there aught immortal: no sign was there, the day's and night's divider. That One Thing, breathless, breathed by its own nature: apart from it was nothing whatsoever. Darkness there was: at first concealed in darkness. This all was watery chaos. All that existed then was void and formless: by the great power of Warmth was born that Unit. --from the Nasadiya Sukta of Rig Veda (Hymn 129 of the 10th Mandala) based on translation by Ralph T.H. Griffith, 1896
If there were water And no rock If there were rock And also water And water A spring A pool among the rock If there were the sound of water only Not the cicada And dry grass singing But sound of water over a rock Where the hermit-thrush sings in the pine trees Drip drop drip drop drop drop drop But there is no water ---T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
In memory of Fate Jung Bahadur, officer, gentleman, thinker, book lover, and my father
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
It is comfortable in the tombdark womb of the earth.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
And Karna inserts the CD into the PC, clicks the play tab, and closes his eyes in contentment.
Longlisted for the 2007 Man Asian Prize, a gripping debut novel about an Indian mining disaster as seen from the perspectives of the miners, their families, and the officials charged with rescuing them. Written by a former director of the Indian Ministry of Coal, and loosely based on the disastrous flood at the Bagdihi colliery in 2001, which trapped and killed dozens of miners, The Sound of Water is written with both an insider's authority and rare literary style. Its suspenseful narrative is presented from three perspectives: The old miner struggling to save himself and his coworkers hundreds of feet below the surface of the earth; the company and government officials charged with managing the rescue efforts, but who are seemingly far more concerned with managing their careers; and, finally, the miners' families, who stand to gain life-changing sums as a consequence of their losses. A searing fictional exposé of the appalling conditions that Indian miners endure and a moving story of the spiritual strength and conviction that enables one to survive against the odds, The Sound of Water dares to inaugurate "alternate realism," a fresh genre very different from the soul-baring autobiographies and epic family sagas that have characterized so much of recent Indian fiction.
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For being Sanjay Bahadur first book I feel he did a fabulous job. Well written, captivating and strong. The author unfolds a story about of a small India community of people and a life only coal miners experience down deep under the folds of dirt and rocks through the tunnels of their uncertain fate.
Sanjay Bahadur uses vignettes to weave through the creation of his novel to relate both the characters complicated plot of Indian life as well as the dangers of the government officials of their country. I liked the way he was descriptive and informative. I felt it made the story more intriguing. I believe he can be a promising writer for his readers.
It was a quick read with a lasting impression. I do think he could have added more to the story at the end but it still was a great novel and I highly recommend it.
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