The Temple Is Not My Father: A Story Set in India
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (856 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00LQE95FU |
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| Number of Pages | : | 506 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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From the author of 'Tell A Thousand Lies,' which was shortlisted for the 2012 Tibor Jones South Asia award. UK's Glam magazine calls 'Tell A Thousand Lies' one of their 'five favourite tales from India.' If you like Rohinton Mistry or Shilpi Somaya Gowda,you might like this short story of 40 pages.. Ensnared by a tradition hundreds of years old, a woman fights for her daughter’s happiness
Dedicated to Goddess Yellamma - married to the Goddess or married to the `temple.' Grady Harp Rasana Atreya is an important writer - not only because she creates novels of intense interest and fine writing technique, but also because she is unafraid to take on the circumstances of her mother country India and as a proactive feminist brings to light aspects of Indian tradition and cultural proclivities that are likely unknown to most Westerners.The theme of her brief novella is the concept of the Devdasis, the sacred prostitutes of India who are given into a life of disdain by parents or guardians and serve the sexual appetites of men. Rasana opens her story with her main character God. "A plot distorted for the sake of the climax?" according to Jay Howard. This story is a flowing, easy read and I found myself looking forward to the next section when I had insufficient time to complete it at one sitting. Having finished it I sat momentarily stunned at the final climax. Then I started thinking about what I had read.The MC, Godavari, was young, with very limited experience of the world. She had low self-confidence, low self-esteem. She saw herself as the other villagers saw her, as someone bearing the stigma of being a devadasi. But she also had a secure home and income. She had a mobile phone so she could, if she wished, discuss things with her s. John P. Jones III said Indian women and power (or the lack thereof). Ever since the days of my youth, when I undertook an extensive 7-week tour of India, I have had an enduring fascination for the "wonder that was (is) India" to use, and paraphrase the title to A.L. Basham's excellent history. I've also been drawn to, and have read a number of Indian writers, including Arudhati Roy, Amit Chaudhuri, Anita Desai and Krushwant Singh. One writer, Ved Mehta, in his impressive Portrait of India has presented an eclectic and broad-spectrum view of the many Indias, both in terms of geography and society. The one area that has been most elusive to me, certainly uncover