“In the early 1950s, an 11-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated
at the “cat’s table”—as far from the Captain’s Table as can be—with a ragtag
group of “insignificant” adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As
the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into
the Mediterranean, the boys tumble from one
adventure to another, bursting all over the place like freed mercury. But there
are other diversions as well: One man talks with them about jazz and women,
another opens the door to the world of literature. The narrator’s elusive,
beautiful cousin Emily becomes his confidante, allowing him to see himself
“with a distant eye” for the first time, and to feel the first stirring of
desire. Another cat’s table denizen, the shadowy Miss Lasqueti, is perhaps more
than what she seems. And very late every night, the boys spy on a shackled
prisoner, his crime and his fate a galvanizing mystery that will haunt them
forever. As the narrative moves between the decks and holds of the ship and the
boy’s adult years, it tells a spellbinding story—by turns poignant and
electrifying—about the magical, often forbidden discoveries of childhood and a
lifelong journey that begins unexpectedly with a spectacular sea voyage.”
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martedì 29 novembre 2011
domenica 27 novembre 2011
THE BUDDHA IN THE ATTIC by Julie Otsuka (Alfred A. Knopf)
“Julie Otsuka’s long awaited follow-up to When
the Emperor Was Divine (“To watch Emperor catching on with teachers and
students in vast numbers is to grasp what must have happened at the outset for
novels like Lord of the Flies and To Kill a Mockingbird” —The New York Times)
is a tour de force of economy and precision, a novel that tells the story of a
group of young women brought over from Japan to San Francisco as ‘picture
brides’ nearly a century ago. In eight incantatory sections, The Buddha in the
Attic traces their extraordinary lives, from their arduous journey by boat,
where they exchange photographs of their husbands, imagining uncertain futures
in an unknown land; to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first
nights as new wives; to their backbreaking work picking fruit in the fields and
scrubbing the floors of white women; to their struggles to master a new
language and a new culture; to their experiences in childbirth, and then as
mothers, raising children who will ultimately reject their heritage and their
history; to the deracinating arrival of war. In language that has the force and
the fury of poetry, Julie Otsuka has written a singularly spellbinding novel
about the American dream.”
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