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Love the Dark Days - Softcover

Mathur, Ira

 
9781845235352: Love the Dark Days
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1845235355 ISBN 13: 9781845235352
Verlag: Peepal Tree Press Ltd, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Set in India, England, Trinidad, and St Lucia, Love the Dark Days follows the story of a girl, Dolly, born of mixed Hindu-Muslim parentage in post-independence India. When she lives with her grandmother, member of an elite Muslim family, whose history is one of having colluded with the brutality of the British rule in India, Dolly unconsciously imbibes her grandmother's prejudices of class and race. As the dark child in her family, this makes her feel that she does not belong, leading to an over-anxiety to please the adults around her. That feeling of unbelonging is repeated when her family migrates to multicultural Trinidad, made up of people from many continents, where she encounters Indian people, several generations away from India, who have a very different sense of themselves, who appear contemptuous of what they see as her airs and graces. She begins writing about her experiences as a way of trying to make sense of them. In her darkest hour, she meets Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott, who encourages her, when she visits him in St Lucia over a weekend, to leave the past behind and reinvent herself.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ira Mathur is an Indian-born journalist and broadcaster, long resident in Trinidad. She has written over eight hundred columns on politics, economics, social, health and developmental issues, locally, regionally, and internationally.

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Verlag
Peepal Tree Press Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1845235355
ISBN 13 
9781845235352
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
232
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