This series is designed to bring to North American readers the once-unheard voices of writers who have achieved wide acclaim at home, but are not recognized beyond the borders of their native lands. With special emphasis on women writers, Interlink's Emerging Voices series publishes the best of the world's contemporary literature in translation or original English.
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Gunga represents today's Indian woman. While appreciating the benefits of the upper-class status of her family, Gunga nevertheless seeks freedom to make her life choices about love, sex, marriage, career, and family relationships. In the process of coming to terms with her own choices and her mother's obvious sadness, Gunga discovers some harsh truths: her family's wealth is based on the 1943 famine (through their investments in a company that stockpiled grain and sold it on the black market); her father and aunt are family-arranged lovers; her mother financially supports her father's debt; and her mother abandoned the only man she loved because of parental disapproval. Gunga is literally caught in the middle of India's seemingly slow transition from imperial, chauvinistic conditions to a democratic state. Mahindra's writing is graceful and intimate. Her perception is both reflective and future-minded. The reader gains a strong sense of India and modern men and women's struggle there to put the past to rest and to find a new way to move forward, creating in the process a new and necessary vision. Janet St. John
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5.0 out of 5 stars
beautiful,
This review is from: The End Play (Emerging Voices) (Paperback)
This book was simple yet stunning in its portrayal of the choices a young girl makes between embracing a modern life and living in a family ethos that is making her increasingly uncomfortable. This is one of my favorites of all-time.
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Fantastic read!,
This review is from: The End Play (Emerging Voices) (Paperback)
Indira Mahindra's 'The End Play' is not just a vivid portrait of a relatable character coming to terms with decisions she's made in her past but an introspective look at the questions and issues faced by indian women. Beautifully written, Mahindra demonstrates her undeniable gift for storytelling and captures life in India with pitch-perfect accuracy. This book is a must-read and a rare find: a novel that is as affecting as it is entertaining, and as provocative as it is humane.
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