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S'està carregant… Elephantasm (1993)de Tanith Lee
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After about a third of the book, the story switches to the various viewpoints of the Smoltes and through flashbacks it is shown exactly what Smolte did in India, and the atrocities of which he was the prime cause. Although there are small sections from Annie's POV afterwards, it never recaptures the interest of the early part of the book. The writing style and descriptions are at times magnificent, but there is so much cruelty in the story, especially violence against women, that I could not enjoy it.
The book also suffers badly from the grinding gear change from Annie's story into that of the Smoltes, and I think would have worked better if their story had been interwoven with hers from the start so that it could have been foreshadowed that at some point the two would join up. As it is, it comes across as two disparate stories grafted together with the aid of a few hints about India in Annie's family background to make it somehow possible that her presence is the catalyst to bring a very rough justice to the Smoltes. From being a story about the deprivation of the Victorian working class, especially the girls and women, and the injustice to which they are subjected, it switches to a post-colonial guilt trip, brought about by supernatural means, that is not very convincing.
Another oddity is that the punishment dished out to various characters is often out of proportion to what they have done.