Attia Hosain (1913–1998)
Författare till Sunlight on a Broken Column
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Verk av Attia Hosain
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- Vedertaget namn
- Hosain, Attia
- Födelsedag
- 1913
- Avled
- 1998-01-25
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- India (birth)
England
UK (residence) - Födelseort
- Lucknow, India
- Bostadsorter
- Lucknow, India
London, England, UK - Utbildning
- Lucknow University
Isabella Thoburn College, Lucknow - Yrken
- radio broadcaster (BBC)
writer - Relationer
- Shamsie, Kamila (great-niece)
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Statistik
- Verk
- 6
- Även av
- 2
- Medlemmar
- 309
- Popularitet
- #76,232
- Betyg
- 3.7
- Recensioner
- 7
- ISBN
- 15
- Språk
- 1
- Favoritmärkt
- 2
Laila is the poor relative of a Taluqdar (landowner) family in Lucknow and lives a comfortable and traditional life but her cousins are on the side of the Muslim League, who want to oust the English and their upper caste Indian servants. There is a large cast of local characters, including entitled cousins and poor cousins, servants, the Indian aristocracy (rajas and ranis), a former courtesan and an English governess, and I did get a sense of a dilapidated family estate lost in time like a fly trapped in amber, but I kept expecting history to catch up with the plot and throw everything into chaos.
But no. The second part of the story jumps ahead nine years into the future, skipping Partition and a lot of key moments in the lives of the characters, only to have to summarise everything like a drawn out epilogue. The language is beautiful but I was bored, sorry.… (mer)