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The Crow Eaters: A Novel

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Srinivas, an elderly Brahmin, has been living in a south London suburb for thirty years. After the deaths of his son and his wife, this lonely man is befriended by an Englishwoman in her sixties, whom he takes into his home. The two form a deep and abiding relationship. However, the haven they create for themselves proves to be a fragile one. Racist violence enters their world and Srinivas's life changes irrevocably - as does his dream of England as a country of tolerance and equality. Unfortunately for Freddy, he can't always find the same comfort inside his own home. His mother-in-law, Jerbanoo, becomes the bane of his life, even as his wealth and influence grow in the community and beyond.

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Olive Senior is one of Jamaica’s most exciting creative talents. Summer Lightningis her first collection of short stories. It tells the story of the ups and downs of the Junglewallas, a Parsee family who move from Central India to Lahore to seek and find their fortunes. Bapsi Sidhwa is Pakistan's leading diasporic writer. She has produced four novels in English that reflect her personal experience of the Indian subcontinent's Partition, abuse against women, immigration to the US, and membership in the Parsi/Zoroastrian community. Born on August 11, 1938 in Karachi, in what is now Pakistan, and migrating shortly thereafter to Lahore, Bapsi Sidhwa witnessed the bloody Partition of the Indian Subcontinent as a young child in 1947. Growing up with polio, she was educated at home until age 15, reading extensively. She then went on to receive a BA from Kinnaird College for Women in Lahore. At nineteen, Sidhwa had married and soon after gave birth to the first of her three children. The responsibilities of a family led her to conceal her literary prowess. She says, "Whenever there was a bridge game, I'd sneak off and write. But now that I've been published, a whole world has opened up for me." (Graeber) For many years, though, she says, "I was told that Pakistan was too remote in time and place for Americans or the British to identify with"(Hower 299). During this time she was an active women's rights spokesperson, representing Pakistan in the Asian Women's Congress of 1975.Exploring both the cruelty and the beauty of family life, and the harshness of India's modern history, Clear Light of Day evokes the painful process of confronting and healing old wounds. Crow Eaters, unlike old ladies, are not wives or steady girlfriends of any one particular member of the club. The Crow Eaters are basically SAMCRO groupies, available to club members for sex or companionship. The Jungewallas revere the English, from copying their mannerisms to the seal of authority invested in their appropriated proverbs. 'Had someone suggested to them that Englishmen, too, defecate, they might have said, "Of course ... they have to, I suppose"'. Pride of place is given to the histrionic, maddening, indestructible Jerbanoo, mother-in-law and bane of patriarch Faredoon’s existence. Did the style and the language of this novel pose any particular problems for you as a translator? Was it more or less challenging than some of the other books you have translated?

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New York, 2007. After two long years apart, Jende Jonga has brought his wife Neni from Cameroon to join him in the land of opportunity. Drawn by the promise of America they are seeking the chance of a better life for them and their son. Decades after the publication of The Crow Eaters, how do you view it? Are you fond of it or do you feel that you have moved on? Since I read Ice-candy Man by Sidhwa. My expectations from her were relatively elevated, and to my delight, I was not disappointed reading The Crow Eaters. This novel covers all the syncretism of India before the partition and its high-functioning chaos. Sidhwa moved the Junglewallas across India to Simla and Bombay and lastly to London. Describing the subcontinent at the turn of the last century portraying its varied customs and traits with contagious humor. a b c Encyclopedia of Asian-American literature. New York. p.703. ISBN 978-1-4381-4058-2. OCLC 882543312.After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy’s isolated smallholding. For me,the best thing about the the book was Sidhwa's trademark humour.She has a natural gift for it.Ironically,it was the same humour which offended some Parsis and made the novel a bit controversial. Booker Prize winner Munro's wonderful collection of stories reads like a novel, following Rose's life as she moves away from her impoverished roots and forges her own path in the world. Allo stesso modo seguiremo le avventure di uno dei suoi sette figli, ma non svelerò niente per non guastarvi il piacere della lettura.

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