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S'està carregant… The Bandit Queens: A Novel (edició 2023)de Parini Shroff (Autor)
Informació de l'obraThe Bandit Queens de Parini Shroff
   No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra.  spiritedstardust | Sep 14, 2023 |  Love it. Dark humor and serious issues, fierce women and their friendships, and the struggle to have agency apart from their awful husbands. I was outraged for the main character so many times, the characters are so sharp and stinging. I am also intrigued by the real Bandit Queen, what an icon. (  ) KallieGrace | Sep 6, 2023 | It is not yet March and wholly unintentionally this is the third book I have read about killing husbands. Coincidence? Or have we reached some sort of boiling point? I raced through this one! Funny and engrossing and also heartbreaking, The Bandit Queens tells an important story about domestic abuse, caste discrimination, and the power of the patriarchy in India. The book follows Geeta, a woman approaching middle-age, alone because her abusive drunk husband left her five years ago. Everyone in town thinks she is a witch and that she killed her husband and fed him to the dogs and she is perfectly happy to let them believe that. After a time though other women start seeking out her "services." I don't want to get into the story because it would be impossible to do so without spoiling, but suffice to say there is action and sustaining friendship, and some revenge. I hate the term "chick lit" because it is not something that describes but rather something that diminishes. It is as if the things that concern women are trifles as compared to the concerns of male writers. Women saving themselves from being beaten, maimed and killed are nothing while the purveyors of dick lit are taken very seriously for writing about perceived emasculation, alcoholism, and affairs with students. Don't get me wrong, I like a lot of what I classify as dick lit, but I also don't see it as necessarily having greater craft, value, or import than the stories of women. All that said, this is what most would classify as chick lit - it is a story about women coming together to work around a system that was built with the intention to keep them powerless. Inspiring and enjoyable. One note, this is inspired by the story of the real Bandit Queen, Phoolan Devi, a woman whom I had not heard of. A low caste woman abused beyond what one would think was imaginable, she fought back against the system, ended up in jail (for real crimes) and then became a politician but was assassinated in her 30's. Her story is really interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoolan_Devi (  ) Narshkite | Jul 30, 2023 | This book really dragged for me. chasidar | Jul 17, 2023 | Reason read: read for WCf2f This is set in India and involves a group of women in a small village who meet together as a loan group. The author uses the historical character Phoolan Devi as the source for the story. My review is strongly influenced by a review written on GR by Srivalli Rekha. As a politically correct novel this book meets those criteria; poor India, slums, unclean villages, Hindu vs. Muslin (no mentions of Indian Christians), upper and lower castes (villains and victims), patriarchal society with abuse of women, targeting Hindu symbols, rituals, and customs. But if I read this reviewer correctly; this book does no favors for India. What to like: I found the story engaging. I enjoyed these women and their stories. I also think the cover of the book is great. They are Geeta, Saloni, Farah, and Preity. According to Srivalli Rekha the language that is used actually would be that colorful with native cusswords for women living in rural India. What I had questions about and made me start looking is was this book written by an Indian woman and I found that she is an American author, educated as a lawyer but she does have family in India and had gone home to visit her dad and leaned about this "loan business". But there is no information on where the author was born, when did she come to the US or was she born here? How reliable was her "voice". There is very little information that can be found about Parini Shroff. This is a debut novel. According to the review that I read, the author tried hard to balance authentic Indian dialogues but wasn't always successful with Geeta sounding American at times. That reviewer also disliked translations of native proverbs into English and the over use of "something black in the lentils". Still wouldn't it only be appropriate to use some native proverbs. Is there an assumption that a non Indian would not understand? This reviewer also saw the book as attacking Hindus. So from that review the author did not get the differences right and maybe didn't even get the facts correct. And the conclusion is does the voice of someone who has Indian origin but maybe not real knowledge of the country and peoples have a right to write a book like this. There is a lot of talk about cultural appropriation lately but what looks authentic may not be authentic. Isn't good research better regardless of the origin of the author? So an enjoyable story with great characters but don't read it as an accurate portrayal of India. (  ) Kristelh | Jul 16, 2023 |
 Geeta, a young Indian woman who her neighbors suspect has killed her husband, unintentionally becomes the focal point of town gossip but also a figure of admiration in Parini Shroff’s novel, “The Bandit Queens.” She neither confirms nor denies their suspicions of her guilt, opting to take on the notoriety of a murderer, rather than the shame of a woman left by her husband.....Childless and a loner, Geeta can’t relate to her nattering female cohorts, and I can’t blame her. Though terrible fates have befallen all of them, they feel like caricatures, discussing little else than the uselessness of their husbands or their self-sacrifice as parents justified by the unparalleled “joys of motherhood...Shroff’s narrative was never quite successful in engaging this reader enough to really care about the outcome.  In Parini Shroff’s debut novel, “The Bandit Queens,” a group of wives get the ultimate revenge on their no-good husbands......“Women were built to endure the rules men make,” Parini Shroff writes in her debut novel, “The Bandit Queens,” which covers a litany of grim realities in rural India: poverty, hunger, alcoholism, domestic violence, sexual assault and a caste system, to name a few. This might sound depressing, but Shroff manages to spin all of the above into a radically feel-good story about the murder of no-good husbands by a cast of unsinkable women....“The book’s quick pacing stems from Shroff’s reliance on rapid dialogue, which is sometimes clever, sometimes inane, but always succeeds in creating the vibe of village gossip, with its volley of quips and comebacks......Occasionally, the constant chatter feels misplaced; for instance, a third-act standoff feels downright dippy despite the high stakes. Premis
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HTML:GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK ? A young Indian woman finds the false rumors that she killed her husband surprisingly useful??until other women in the village start asking for her help getting rid of their own husbands??in this razor-sharp debut. ??Shroff captures the complexity of female friendship with acuity, wit, and a certain kind of magic irreverence. . . . The Bandit Queens is tender, unpredictable, and brimming with laugh-out-loud moments.???Téa Obreht, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger??s Wife Five years ago, Geeta lost her no-good husband. As in, she actually lost him??he walked out on her and she has no idea where he is. But in her remote village in India, rumor has it that Geeta killed him. And it??s a rumor that just won??t die. It turns out that being known as a ??self-made? widow comes with some perks. No one messes with her, harasses her, or tries to control (ahem, marry) her. It??s even been good for business; no one dares to not buy her jewelry. Freedom must look good on Geeta, because now other women are asking for her ??expertise,? making her an unwitting consultant for husband disposal. And not all of them are asking nicely. With Geeta??s dangerous reputation becoming a double-edged sword, she has to find a way to protect the life she??s built??but even the best-laid plans of would-be widows tend to go awry. What happens next sets in motion a chain of events that will change everything, not just for Geeta, but for all the women in their village. Filled with clever criminals, second chances, and wry and witty women, Parini Shroff??s The Bandit Queens is a razor-sharp No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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