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Indlæser... The Storm: A Novel (udgave 2018)af Arif Anwar (Forfatter)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Based on a real-life 1970 cyclone that hit the Indian subcontinent that year, this novel in sections spanning 1942 to 2004 tells of the partition of India to the existence of Bangladesh through the intertwined stories of several characters from a Japanese fighter pilot, a fisherman and his wife, a Muslim gentry couple, an English female doctor, to a young Bangladeshi in America trying to get his green card and his half-American daughter. Characters are very realistic and I did learn something of the history of that time. A surprisingly absorbing read and very highly recommended. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
"Seamlessly interweaves five love stories that, together, chronicle sixty years of Bangladeshi history. Shahryar, a recent PhD graduate and father of nine-year-old Anna, must leave the US when his visa expires. In their last remaining weeks together, we learn Shahryar's history, in a village on the Bay of Bengal, where a poor fisherman and his wife are preparing to face a storm of historic proportions. That story intersects with those of a Japanese pilot, a British doctor stationed in Burma during World War II, and a privileged couple in Calcutta who leaves everything behind to move to East Pakistan following the Partition of India. Inspired by the 1970 Bhola cyclone, in which half a million-people perished overnight, the structure of this riveting novel mimics the storm itself. Building to a series of revelatory and moving climaxes, it shows the many ways in which families love, betray, honor, and sacrifice for one another. At once grounded in history and fantastically imaginative, The Storm explores the humanity that connects us beyond the surface differences of race, religion, and nationality. It is an epic novel in the tradition of Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner and Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance, by a singularly gifted and perceptive new writer.-- No library descriptions found. |
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