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(3.4) | 10 | The first novel from Madagascar ever to be translated into English, Naivo's magisterial Beyond the Rice Fields delves into the upheavals of the nation's past as it confronted Christianity and modernity, through the twin narratives of a slave and his master's daughter. Fara and her father's slave, Tsito, have been close since her father bought the boy after his forest village was destroyed. Now in Sahasoa, amongst the cattle and rice fields, everything is new for Tsito, and Fara at last has a companion. But as Tsito looks forward to the bright promise of freedom and Fara, backward to a dark, long-denied family history, a rift opens between them just as British Christian missionaries and French industrialists arrive and violence erupts across the country. Love and innocence fall away, and Tsito and Fara's world becomes enveloped by tyranny, superstition, and fear. With captivating lyricism, propulsive urgency, and two unforgettable characters at the story's core, Naivo unflinchingly delves into the brutal history of nineteenth-century Madagascar. Beyond the Rice Fields is a tour de force that has much to teach us about human bondage and the stories we tell to face--and hide from--ourselves, each other, our pasts, and our destinies.… (mere) |
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Oplysninger fra den engelske Almen Viden Redigér teksten, så den bliver dansk. Ranaka was not so unscrupulous as to deviate from the ancestors' principles: 'You must not judge the stranger with his yellowish face, but think of his family on the other side of the earth.' Remember that, children: every person from far away carries in him the sacred virtues of his own kind, and thus deserves respect. White men's beliefs were reshaping our lives and communities, down to the deepest bedrock. I was and was not a slave. I'd paid an undivided piaster, but it wasn't a symbolic amount, it was hard-won money that I'd earned and deserved. And I never would have been able to "prove my worth" to Andriantsitoha if he hadn't already decided, long before, deep in his soul, that I could be admitted within the community one day. | |
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▾Referencer Henvisninger til dette værk andre steder. Wikipedia på engelskIngen ▾Bogbeskrivelser The first novel from Madagascar ever to be translated into English, Naivo's magisterial Beyond the Rice Fields delves into the upheavals of the nation's past as it confronted Christianity and modernity, through the twin narratives of a slave and his master's daughter. Fara and her father's slave, Tsito, have been close since her father bought the boy after his forest village was destroyed. Now in Sahasoa, amongst the cattle and rice fields, everything is new for Tsito, and Fara at last has a companion. But as Tsito looks forward to the bright promise of freedom and Fara, backward to a dark, long-denied family history, a rift opens between them just as British Christian missionaries and French industrialists arrive and violence erupts across the country. Love and innocence fall away, and Tsito and Fara's world becomes enveloped by tyranny, superstition, and fear. With captivating lyricism, propulsive urgency, and two unforgettable characters at the story's core, Naivo unflinchingly delves into the brutal history of nineteenth-century Madagascar. Beyond the Rice Fields is a tour de force that has much to teach us about human bondage and the stories we tell to face--and hide from--ourselves, each other, our pasts, and our destinies. ▾Biblioteksbeskrivelser af bogens indhold No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThingmedlemmers beskrivelse af bogens indhold
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(All of which I’ve bought for the TBR, except for the last one, which I hadn’t heard of). But there’s criticism of these highly successful authors:
Well, I’m in no position to have an opinion about that, except to say that I’ve tended to enjoy books more when they were written by African authors living in any of the 54 countries in Africa rather than from a university in the US or UK. But (as my reviews show) there are exceptions. A good book is a good book whatever its derivation IMO. But I was very interested to see the books that were named as part of an entire new body of African writing that escapes this closed circuit of damning truisms. And I’d read or read reviews of, or had on the TBR some of the suggested young and adventurous African writers.
*Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s Kintu (Uganda), on the TBR
*Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s Tram 83 (Congo), see my review
the first ever Burundian novel in English,
*Roland Rugero’s Baho! on the TBR
the translation from the Portuguese,
*Jose Eduardo Agualusa’s A General Theory of Oblivion, (Angola) (See Stu’s review at Winston’s Dad) and
*(newly purchased as a result of reading this article) Beyond the Rice Fields by Naivo (Naivoharisoa Patrick Ramamonjisoa) from Madagascar.
So, I set about reading Beyond the Rice Fields expecting great things from its young and adventurous writer…
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2018/04/03/beyond-the-rice-fields-by-naivo-translated-b... ( )