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Neel Mukherjee

Autor/a de The Lives of Others

6+ obres 890 Membres 30 Ressenyes

Sobre l'autor

Neel Mukherjee is a UK author who won the 2015 Encore Award for his novel The Lives of Others. Mukherjee's novel, which was also shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize and the Costa Novel Award, was chosen from a shortlist of six. (Bowker Author Biography)

Inclou el nom: Neel Mukherjee

Nota de desambiguació:

(eng) A Life Apart was published in India as Past Continuous.

Crèdit de la imatge: Nick Tucker

Obres de Neel Mukherjee

The Lives of Others (2014) 523 exemplars
A State of Freedom (2017) 201 exemplars
A Life Apart (2010) 161 exemplars
Avian (2020) 2 exemplars
Choice: A Novel (2024) 2 exemplars
Immigrant 1 exemplars

Obres associades

Palladian (1946) — Introducció, algunes edicions283 exemplars
Refugee Tales (2016) — Col·laborador — 36 exemplars
First Light: A celebration of Alan Garner (2016) — Col·laborador — 29 exemplars
Refugee Tales: Volume II (2017) — Col·laborador — 12 exemplars

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Data de naixement
1970
Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
India
País (per posar en el mapa)
India
Lloc de naixement
Calcutta, India
Llocs de residència
London, England, UK
Educació
Oxford University (BA | English)
Cambridge University (PhD | English)
University of East Anglia (MA)
Professions
fiction writer
Premis i honors
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature
Nota de desambiguació
A Life Apart was published in India as Past Continuous.

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I'm going to have to find a print copy to improve this review. I didn't realize at first that these were separate stories, or how different sections related to each other. It took longer than I expected to get used to the accent of the reader, but once I did I felt it strongly supported the sense of a different culture.
I did visit India for 2 weeks in my early 20's, and was completely unprepared for the Delhi streets. Reading this book made me look back on my experience and wonder how much of the ceremony I was there for was another attempt to bilk the white visitors, as profit to an upper caste man.
The first story, about a father's sense of dissociation when he has brought his young son to tour his homeland of India, was not that interesting, but as the book progressed and presented more stories about the impoverished people of India, I began to wonder if there was some meaning in presenting this experience of an emigrant Indian first. Definitely need the print book to study this, as I also wonder how much of this story is autobiographical.
The story of a man who trains a bear did not engender much sympathy for the man, but as I heard another story of a man trapped in paying off debt, I began to understand the motivation for the bear story.
The story about Indian cooking, and the descriptions of food in some of the other stories, had me longing to eat them.
What seemed to be a long story (or maybe it was 2 related stories) about a tribal girl who is raped and beaten by the local police and later joins guerillas connected in my mind with the treatment the native persons in my country also receive. There is no way we can stand as 'holier than thou' and condemn practices in another country if we can't take care of our own.
Shortly after reading this, I picked up a missionary's book which was essentially describing life in modern India to induce guilt and donations from Euro/American readers. It made a big deal about the caste system limiting people. The book did not inspire me, but did cause me to ponder how much the caste system is still active in India. Mukherjee barely mentioned any sense of caste by the people in his stories; one just picks up on a vague impression of the Indian emigrant likely being and upperclass educated person, versus the barely literate forest dwellers. Based on our American culture it was easy to see the difference as economic classes (which play a major role here) as a religio-oppressive caste belief.
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juniperSun | Hi ha 14 ressenyes més | Mar 6, 2024 |
Didn’t finish. I found the characters so miserable and disagreeable I couldn’t go on.
 
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smylly | Hi ha 14 ressenyes més | Mar 20, 2023 |
The five stories interconnect in various ways--some more obvious than others--but overall, it didn't quite hang together.
 
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arosoff | Hi ha 14 ressenyes més | Jul 11, 2021 |
I was really pretty disappointed by this audibook. Contrary to what the subtitle says this is not a novel, but a collection of short stories. I kept hopting they would all come together in the end, but alas no. One of the characters from teh second story takes a leading roll for the last story, but nothing satisfactory occurs.

Most of the stories just kind of end, no climax, and certainly no happy ending. From rich man's kid dies, to servant girl gets fired, to someone MIGHT have found out wear the dancing bear guy lives.

The best story was the second story about an Indian guy who lives in Britain who gets his employer to pay for his annual trip home under the guise of writing an authentic Indian breakfast cook book travel to each state and sampling their unique cuisine. It was interesting and made me hungry but alas no good ending.
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½
 
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fulner | Hi ha 14 ressenyes més | Dec 20, 2020 |

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