The Gypsy Goddess - Couverture souple

Kandasamy, Meena

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1782391800 ISBN 13 : 9781782391807

Editeur : Atlantic Books, 2015

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

Dazzling, maddening, often hilarious... Kandasamy s in-your-face narrative is unashamedly tricksy but handled with sublime confidence --The Times
Bold... Powerful... The Gypsy Goddess has a radical core, which offers bold perspectives on the relationship between poverty and power --Guardian
It would take Carol Ann Duffy, Caroline Criado-Perez, Kandasamy s hero Arundhati Roy and, if her first work of fiction The Gypsy Goddess is anything to go by, Salman Rushdie to match Kandasamy s infinite variety... The Gypsy Goddess is a novel of self-conscious experimentalism and unmistakable fury, it throws down a gauntlet to conservative literary and political sensibilities --Independent

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Tamil Nadu, 1968. Village landlords rule over a feudal system that forces peasants to break their backs in the fields or suffer beatings as punishment. In the misery of their daily lives it is little wonder that the Communist Party begins to gain traction, a small spark of defiance spreading from villager to villager. As communities across the region begin to take a stand against the landlords, the landlords vow to break them; Party organizers suffer grisly deaths and the flow of food into the market-places dries up. But it only serves to make the villagers' resistance burn more fiercely. Finally, the landlords descend on one village to set an example to the others...

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Atlantic Books
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1782391800
• ISBN 13: 9781782391807
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304