Bharati Mukherjee Bücher

Sozial- und gesellschaftskritischer Roman über das Schicksal einer jungen, früh verwitweten und später in die USA übergesiedelten Inderin.

Autor/in: Mukherjee, Bharati Titel: Die Träne des Großmoguls. ISBN: 9783442721016 (früher: 3442721016) Verlag: BTB Bei Goldmann Ort: München Auflage: 1 Auflage Erschienen: 1997 Einband: TB Zustand: Sehr Gut Leichte Lesespuren am Buchrücken, Umschlag: Illu. Deckel Kurzinfo: Die Träne des Großmoguls. Mukherjee, Bharati Buchbeschreibung: Btb, München, 1997. Taschenbuch. 348 S Macht und Unterwerfung, koloniale Ausbeutung und eine rasende Lebensgier

This collection is a companion to the long-established and highly successful Modern Short Stories One and its essential aims are the same: to offer stories of high literary quality which, though written for adults, can be enjoyed and appreciated by adolescents. The fifteen stories included are by distinguished writers from Africa, America, Australia, India, Ireland, Italy and Great Britain; and within their artistic context several of them deal with the special personal and social concerns of society today.The collection includes stories by the likes of Dorothy Parker, Maeve Binchy, Garrison Keillor, Peter Carey, Flannery O'Connor and Nadine Gordimer.

This newly reissued collection features Bharati's acclaimed stories, celebrated for their depth and emotional resonance. Accompanied by a fresh introduction from award-winning author Madhuri Vijay, the book invites readers to explore the intricate narratives that have captivated audiences. The reissue highlights the timeless relevance of Bharati's work, showcasing her unique storytelling style and the nuanced themes that underpin her stories.

At once sly and tragic, these twelve extraordinary stories chart the complex and shifting lives of the new immigrants to America—some helpless, some hopeless, others ambitious, beautiful, all striving for something they can't quite name, something more...."Mukherjee writes with beautiful precision...neaty needlepointing a malevolent world."THE VILLAGE VOICE

"An amazing literary feat and a masterpiece of storytelling. Once again, Bharati Mukherjee proves she is one of our foremost writers, with the literary muscles to weave both the future and the past into a tale that is singularly intelligent and provocative." --AMY TAN This is the remarkable story of Hannah Easton, a unique woman born in the American colonies in 1670, "a person undreamed of in Puritan society." Inquisitive, vital and awake to her own possibilities, Hannah travels to Mughal, India, with her husband, and English trader. There, she sets her own course, "translating" herself into the Salem Bibi, the white lover of a Hindu raja. It is also the story of Beigh Masters, born in New England in the mid-twentieth century, an "asset hunter" who stumbles on the scattered record of her distant relative's life while tracking a legendary diamond. As Beigh pieces together details of Hannah's journeys, she finds herself drawn into the most intimate and spellbinding fabric of that remote life, confirming her belief that with "sufficient passion and intelligence, we can deconstruct the barriers of time and geography...."

Born into a traditional lower-middle-class family, Anjali sets off to Bangalore where she falls in with an audacious and ambitious crowd of young people. However, the seductive pull of modernity does not come without a dark side . . . Anjali Bose is "Miss New India." Born into a traditional lower-middle-class family and living in a backwater town with an arranged marriage on the horizon, Anjali's prospects don't look great. But her ambition and fluency in language do not go unnoticed by her expat teacher, Peter Champion. And champion her he does, both to other powerful people who can help her along the way and to Anjali herself, stirring in her a desire to take charge of her own destiny. So she sets off to Bangalore, India's fastest-growing major metropolis, and quickly falls in with an audacious and ambitious crowd of young people, who have learned how to sound American by watching shows like Seinfeld in order to get jobs as call-center service agents, where they are quickly able to out-earn their parents. And it is in this high-tech city where Anjali - suddenly free from the traditional confines of class, caste, gender, and more - is able to confront her past and reinvent herself. Of course, the seductive pull of modernity does not come without a dark side...

In the tradition of the Joy Luck Club, Bharati Mukherjee has written a remarkable novel that is both the portrait of a traditional Brahmin Indian family and a contemporary American story of a woman who has in many ways broken with tradition but still remains tied to her native country. Mukherjee follows the diverging paths taken by three extraordinary Calcutta-born sisters as they come of age in a changing world. Moving effortlessly between generations, she weaves together fascinating stories of the sisters' ancestors, childhood memories, and dramatic scenes from India's history.