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穿越地理空間的母女對話
評分穿越地理空間的母女對話
評分造化弄人,撼不動人間親情。
評分穿越地理空間的母女對話
評分造化弄人,撼不動人間親情。
Shilpi Somaya Gowda was born and raised in Toronto to parents who migrated there from Mumbai, India. She holds an MBA from Stanford University, and a Bachelor's Degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A native of Canada, she has lived in New York, North Carolina and Texas. She now makes her home in California with her husband and children.
From Publishers Weekly
Gowda's debut novel opens in a small Indian village with a young woman giving birth to a baby girl. The father intends to kill the baby (the fate of her sister born before her) but the mother, Kavita, has her spirited away to a Mumbai orphanage. Meanwhile, in San Francisco, Somer, a doctor who can't bear children, is persuaded by her Indian husband, Krishnan, to adopt a child from India. Somer reluctantly agrees and they go to India where they coincidentally adopt Kavita's daughter, Asha. Somer is overwhelmed by the unfamiliar country and concerned that the child will only bond with her husband because Asha and Krishnan will look alike, they will have their ancestry in common. Kavita, still mourning her baby girl, gives birth to a son. Asha grows up in California, feeling isolated from her heritage until at college she finds a way to visit her birth country. Gowda's subject matter is compelling, but the shifting points of view weaken the story. (Mar.)
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From Booklist
In her engaging debut, Gowda weaves together two compelling stories. In India in 1984, destitute Kavita secretly carries her newborn daughter to an orphanage, knowing her husband, Jasu, would do away with the baby just as he had with their firstborn daughter. In their social stratum, girls are considered worthless because they can’t perform physical labor, and their dowries are exorbitant. That same year in San Francisco, two doctors, Somer and Krishnan, she from San Diego, he from Bombay, suffer their second miscarriage and consider adoption. They adopt Asha, a 10-month-old Indian girl from a Bombay orphanage. Yes, it’s Kavita’s daughter. In alternating chapters, Gowda traces Asha’s life in America—her struggle being a minority, despite living a charmed life, and Kavita and Jasu’s hardships, including several years spent in Dharavi, Bombay’s (now Mumbai’s) infamous slum, and the realization that their son has turned to drugs. Gowda writes with compassion and uncanny perception from the points of view of Kavita, Somer, and Asha, while portraying the vibrant traditions, sights, and sounds of modern India. --Deborah Donovan --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
好久没有真正的读过一本完整的书了,一本能真正的震撼自己的书。孩子总是在长大之后才能逐渐理解自己的父母,面对血水之情,养育之情都是如此的弥足珍贵,生命中有许多值得纪念和回忆的事情,保持一颗感恩的心吧。
評分 評分好久没有真正的读过一本完整的书了,一本能真正的震撼自己的书。孩子总是在长大之后才能逐渐理解自己的父母,面对血水之情,养育之情都是如此的弥足珍贵,生命中有许多值得纪念和回忆的事情,保持一颗感恩的心吧。
評分 評分Secret Daughter 在線電子書 pdf 下載 txt下載 epub 下載 mobi 下載 2024