Abandon - Softcover

Bandyopadhyay, Sangeeta

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1911284118 ISBN 13: 9781911284116

Verlag: Tilted Axis Press, 2017

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Críticas:

'Audacious... The need to create, Bandyopadhyay suggests, is something like a permanent wound--inextricable, smarting with pain, and only denied for so long.' -- Darren Huang, Words Without Borders 'A long, raw, brutal, sometimes heartbreaking tug-of-war between motherhood and creativity... Abandon is a bold, important and formidable novel about the demands of life and the responsibilities we have, both to others and to ourselves.' -- Lucy Scholes, The National 'With Room-like insight into motherhood, Abandon is a compelling novel about the perpetual conflict between art and life.' -- Rabeea Saleem, Book Riot 'A novel that continues to explore many of the same conflicts that surround our notions of womanhood, motherhood and the accessibility of participation in the arts... Tragic and beguiling' -- Callum McAllister, Cardiff Review 'A neat depiction of the ways in which our contradictory desires pull us in directions so different as to be irreconcilable.' -- The Skinny 'Breathtaking and urgent; exploring women's desire and struggle for creative, economic, and sexual independent in Bandyopadhyay's characteristically sensual and engrossing prose, Abandon is an absolute joy.' -- Megan Bradbury, author of Everyone is Watching 'In this beautiful novel, which subtly examines the rift that can open up inside us, compassion and cruelty are so close that at times they become indistinguishable. Prepare to be wrenched apart.' -- Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of Harmless Like You

Reseña del editor:

'India has found its Ferrante' - Niven Govinden ------ 'And I struggle to find my place in this dark novel. I yearn for passion and despair - for that is what makes good literature - while Ishwari seeks a life of joy for herself and her son.' ------ A powerful novel about a woman who runs away from home, seeking to free herself from the shackles of society and familial attachments, and instead devote her attentions to writing a novel. When she realises that her five year old son Roo has followed her, Ishwari struggles with her identity as a mother and the responsibilities that brings, versus the guilty knowledge that she cannot want her own child when his existence requires her to suppress her own dreams. ------ Ishwari and Roo wander the streets at night, looking for a place to stay, until an elderly caretaker takes pity on them and offers them an empty room on the terrace of a guest house. Ishwari gets work as a caregiver to the handsome gentleman who lives next door, while Roo, who is lame, spends all day locked up in the room on the roof. Pulsating with raw energy, Abandon gives voice to the perpetual conflict between life and art.

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• Verlag: Tilted Axis Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1911284118
• ISBN 13: 9781911284116
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 234