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Sto caricando le informazioni... Kaya Daysdi Carl de Souza
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. In 1999 the Mauritian musician Kaya was killed while in police custody. This book takes place during the rioting and looting that occurred after. It is frenetic and confusing, as Santee tries to navigate the crowded streets and angry people while looking for her younger brother, Ram. This book takes place over 24-48 hours. And during that time Santee goes from being a sheltered, naive girl who seems about 13-14 years old to an active, politically aware woman who is maybe 18--speaking with a prisoner after the crowd breaks in to free prisoners, participating in looting, being afraid of strangers to traveling with different men. I am left wondering if her transformation is meant to represent the Mauritian people (working class?) who were galvanized by the murder of Kaya. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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HTML: "This isn't a night for theater. All the drama will be outside." In 1999, the Mauritian musician Joseph Réginald Topize, better known as Kaya, was arrested for smoking weed while performing at a concert. Following his death in police custody just days later, the island nation surged with violence in a long-overdue demand for justice from the formerly-colonized peoples of the East African island nation. In Kaya Days, the spirit of the island and its many peopleâ??Creole, Indian, French, Britishâ??is distilled into a young woman's daylong search through the uproar for her younger brother, who has gone missing. Amid burning cars and buildings, opportunists and revolutionaries, Santee rises into another worldâ??a furious, brilliant one. An exhilarating journey from a small Hindu village to the big city, and from innocence into womanhood, Carl de Souza's surreal English-language debut, artfully translated from French by Jeffrey Zuckerman, is an explosion of politics and poetry, a humid dream-world of revolutionary fervor where seemingly anythingâ??everythingâ??is possible, if only in Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The main narrator is a young Indian girl (a teenager most likely although we never learn her age) who is sent by her mother from the village they live in to pick up her 11-years old brother from his school in the city. The boy is not where he is supposed to so our narrator is off looking for him - getting herself in all kind of weird situations - a pair of Chinese casino girls mistake her for someone else and dress her like themselves, the casino owner almost rapes her, a taxi driver takes her for what she is dresses and tries to fulfill his own dreams while driving around the town, a Creole boy seems to fall in love with her. It is a stream of consciousness novel (or novella... it may be too short to be a novel) which occasionally shifts the narrator to a different character. And through the eyes of the narrators, we see Mauritius in its multi-ethnic glory - all together, all apart. And somewhere in there, our narrator passes from her childhood into her womanhood - not physically but mentally and we get a front seat to her memories and regrets. She grows from naive to confident; from the village girl to the woman that can order a man to do things for her; from the one that was always supposed to care for her brother to the one her brother is afraid of. It is claustrophobic and crazy and the rioting and he looting and history just merge into one to make the story of a girl. Or a woman - which somehow becomes the story of the island. That novel will either work for a reader or it won't - it has this very weird quality that tends to split people's opinions.
I am not sure I would have appreciated it as much as I did without reading Vinod Busjeet's novel "Silent Winds, Dry Seas" before that. Not because they are connected. It gave me the history and the background; it gave me an understanding of the complexity of the ethnic makeup of the small island. de Souza has some of that as well but because of how the novel works, because of the short period it covers, because of who the narrator is, it cannot really show you all of that. ( )