Neel Mukherjee
Autor/a de The Lives of Others
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)
Nota de desambiguació:
(eng) A Life Apart was published in India as Past Continuous.
Crèdit de la imatge: Nick Tucker
Obres de Neel Mukherjee
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Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- 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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Converses
2014 Booker Prize longlist: The Lives of Others a Booker Prize (octubre 2014)
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 6
- També de
- 4
- Membres
- 890
- Popularitat
- #28,791
- Valoració
- 3.6
- Ressenyes
- 30
- ISBN
- 47
- Llengües
- 5
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.… (més)