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Лучшие книги Бапси Сидхва
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Огнепоклонники Бапси Сидхва
Год издания: 1988 Издательство: Известия Язык: Русский Роман пакистанской писательницы Бапси Сидхвы в традиционном жанре семейной хроники рассказывает о преуспевании беззастенчивого дельца и плута Фаредуна Джуиглевалы. Попутно дается интересная информация о традициях и нравах современной зороастрийской общины в Индии.
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Cracking India Bapsi Sidhwa
ISBN: 1571310487, 9781571310484 Год издания: 2006 Издательство: Milkweed Editions Язык: Английский The 1947 Partition of India is the backdrop for this powerful novel, narrated by a precocious child who describes the brutal transition with chilling veracity. Young Lenny Sethi is kept out of school because she suffers from polio. She spends her days with Ayah, her beautiful nanny, visiting with the large group of admirers that Ayah draws. It is in the company of these working class characters that Lenny learns about religious differences, religious intolerance, and the blossoming genocidal strife on the eve of Partition. As she matures, Lenny begins to identify the differences between the Hindus, Moslems, and Sikhs engaging in political arguments all around her. Lenny enjoys a happy, privileged life in Lahore, but the kidnapping of her beloved Ayah signals a dramatic change. Soon Lenny’s world erupts in religious, ethnic, and racial violence. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, the domestic drama serves as a microcosm for a profound political upheaval. -
Water Bapsi Sidhwa
ISBN: 1571310568, 9781571310569 Год издания: 2006 Издательство: Milkweed Editions Язык: Английский The renowned author Bapsi Sidhwa and the equally renowned filmmaker Deepa Mehta share a unique artistic relationship: Mehta adapted Sidhwa’s novel Cracking India for her brilliant film Earth, and here, Sidhwa adapts Mehta’s controversial film Water to the printed page.
Set in 1938, against the backdrop of Gandhi’s rise to power, Water follows the life of eight-year-old Chuyia, abandoned at a widow’s ashram after the death of her elderly husband. There, she must live in penitence until her death. Unwilling to accept her fate, she becomes a catalyst for change in the widows’s lives. When her friend Kalyani, a beautiful widow-prostitute, falls in love with a young, upper-class Gandhian idealist, the forbidden affair boldly defies Hindu tradition and threatens to undermine the ashram’s delicate balance of power. This riveting look at the lives of widows in colonial India is ultimately a haunting and lyrical story of love, faith, and redemption.