of Geetanjali Shree
It 's a mother who takes the meaning of his life in silence, submission to the various members of the family-in-law, husband, sons, each in varying degrees. There is violence: the others decide and she accepts, as if he knew or could not do anything else. Its virtues feeds and depends on it, in a mental prison that is often found, for his homework, his back bent, soon ill and in pain, which becomes a metaphor for his state, in its submission.
Mai, which belongs to a middle class family in northern India, he lives his life among the rooms of the house and those rooms throughout the novel we also go out very little. The same house is not a neutral environment, but it defines the relationships between family members, with the arrangement of rooms, kitchen, interior spaces and walls.
I do not know if it is "worth". They are usually the writers to dedicate their books to anyone, but I think the readers have a right to spend their readings to those who most pleases them.
To me it came naturally to devote Mai novel, Geetanjali Shree's novel, written in Hindi and recently translated into English, Kunjan, because among other things I read when I was at his house.
Kunjan is the sister of the friend who hosted me in Gandhinagar in Gujarat, in its three-story house with his entire family. Kunjan quickly became a dear friend, can donate at any time confidences, hugs, tears and sincere words.
In the novel in question, which has been very successful when translated into English, the author describes in a very intense life of a mother, "Never" , primarily seen through the eyes of his daughter.
It 's a mother who takes the meaning of his life in silence, submission to the various members of the family-in-law, husband, sons, each in varying degrees. There is violence: the others decide and she accepts, as if he knew or could not do anything else. Its virtues feeds and depends on it, in a mental prison that is often found, for his homework, his back bent, soon ill and in pain, which becomes a metaphor for his state, in its submission.
Mai, which belongs to a middle class family in northern India, he lives his life among the rooms of the house and those rooms throughout the novel we also go out very little. The same house is not a neutral environment, but it defines the relationships between family members, with the arrangement of rooms, kitchen, interior spaces and walls.
two sons repeated throughout their life, from an early age, he wants to "save", but gradually they realize that a bird in a cage can not be freed.
The fact that I have read in the home of Kunjan enlightened me about many things, and it was too easy (and perhaps not entirely correct) reading watermark in the novel among the rooms of the house in Gandhinagar.
Never Like the novel, even Kunjan certainly not forced into the house by force, but also the whole big family is very kind and affectionate with her. But his is a life entirely to serve the family, mother and model wife: loving, caring, smiling, she is the most educated of the family and the one that best of all speak English.
But when I open my heart overwhelms me his immense nostalgia of Bombay, where he lived before marriage, and a life full of dreams in which there was neither wife nor mother, but only itself.
Geetanjali Shree's book probably would not have hit so much if I had read on other occasions, so close to describing reality itself.
I dedicate it to Kunjan, the girl of his dreams.
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