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Sto caricando le informazioni... A People's History of Heaven (originale 2019; edizione 2019)di Mathangi Subramanian (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. A People's History of Heaven is about friendship and loyalty. Set in a Bangalore slum nicknamed "Heaven" that's about to be bulldozed, the story moves back and forth in time to tell the stories of a group of teenage girls and their mothers and grandmothers. For generations, the women of Heaven have survived and thrived because they have worked together, supported each other, and formed a large, extended family. The story is told from the point of view of the teenage girls, but no one girl is identified as the narrator: "There are five of us girls: Deepa, Banu, Padma, Rukshana, and Joy. Born the same year in the same slum. In the same class at school." Each girl's story is told in the third person by a first-person plural, omniscient, unidentified "we," the group as a whole. It's a unique way to emphasize the importance of the group's identity to their survival, and I loved it. I was less in love with the author's tendency to use incomplete sentences as a narrative device. She does it a lot and it makes the whole book sound breathy and rushed, as if we were catching snatches of narration here and there instead of reading the story whole. It would work if it were used more sparingly, but so much of the narration is just strings of incomplete phrases that it starts to feel repetitive and irritating. Regardless, A People's History is a wonderful book that will make you want to hug your friends and maybe even your mom. I started this book a bit confused and had a hard time getting into it because if my unfamiliarity with the characters’ names. I found myself continuously going back to the front of the book to see who was who and see who was the current speaker. However, that quickly fell away as I grew able to identify the girls/women and their relatives. Before long i was captured and found that I cared about these girls and their welfare and the outcome of their stories. A very enjoyable read. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"In Bangalore, India, five young women fight to save their homes, which are really only shacks and lean-tos, in a slum named "Heaven," which the city wants to bulldoze in order to accommodate its growing tech industry"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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It took me a little while to get a handle on all of the characters and to learn why each one was special but by the end I certainly did care about all of their fates. It’s almost impossible for me to really understand the situation they are in and how their lives can be so different from mine where even basic elementary school education is a luxury and they have parents who can’t read or write and they live in a slum that could be bulldozed at any moment.
The more I think about it, the more I’m realizing how much I liked this book.
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