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Laddar... A Suitable Boy (urspr publ 1993; utgåvan 1994)av Vikram Seth
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The BBC audio performance of A Suitable Boy was a treat for the ears and was easily able to evoke the cinema of the mind for me. The portrayal of the various characters was top notch as was the voice acting and sound effects. The musical soundtrack was inspired. All in all this was a treat for the lovers of this art form. Will be looking for more BBC productions to relive the experience in a different manner. ( ) A Suitable Boy is, if nothing else, an epic accomplishment. Seth has created and populated a world in such detail, astutely developed numerous characters and maintained a written style of rich eloquence throughout. The vastness of his purview results in the plot having a disjointed flow (no more evident than in the slightly brusque ending). But in the attempt to encompass so many factors of life and society - quite rightly demonstrating how in reality they pervade the daily life of a family - it would be incredibly harsh to criticise the book for a lack of an adequate crescendo. The quote by Voltaire, Seth includes at the beginning of the book ('the superfluous, that very necessary thing') adroitly highlights his belief that it was indeed imperative to include so much - I would in fact argue that he didn't include enough as there was a palpable sense of abruptness in the ending almost like he couldn't take it anymore or that he was increasingly worried about the word count. This by no means takes anything away from the enjoyment had by reading this book. Take your mind through the romanticism of India proffered by Seth in his gargantuan novel/substitute pillow! Coming in at almost 1500 pages, I kept wishing this book had been available as an e-book or published in 3 volumes! Other than the size and weight, it was a wonderful story of post partition India. I felt like I was learning so much about Indian culture and history while enmeshed in a great soap opera of terrific characters! And I just read online that the sequel "A Suitable Girl" is in the works for 2016! This title was the last title in The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams and one I have not read. FROM AMAZON: Vikram Seth's novel is, at its core, a love story: the tale of Lata's - and her mother’s - attempts to find a suitable boy for Lata, through love or through exacting maternal appraisal. Set in the early 1950s in an India newly independent and struggling through a time of crisis, A Suitable Boy takes us into the world of four large extended families and spins a compulsively readable tale of their lives and loves. A sweeping panoramic portrait of a complex, multi-ethnic society in flux, A Suitable Boy remains the story of ordinary people caught up in a web of love and ambition, humor and sadness, prejudice and reconciliation, the most delicate social etiquette and the most appalling violence. «Tú también te casarás con quien yo diga», le dice la señora Rupa Mehra a su hija Lata al principio de esta historia. Desde ese momento, la búsqueda de un buen partido para Lata se convierte en el motor de este extraordinario fresco de la India de los años cincuenta, un país que aún restaña las heridas de su reciente independencia; donde los esfuerzos modernizadores tropiezan con las ancestrales costumbres y donde los matrimonios se concertan por intereses familiares. En la tradición de Tolstói, George Eliot o Jane Austen, Vikram Seth nos ofrece una verdadera tranche de vie en la que los personajes viven, sienten, aman, odian y luchan por escapar o alcanzar su destino. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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