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Then I finally finished reading Suketu.
These Indians who write libroni huge! Are you afraid to start because of the size, you drag them months - I swear month! - On the table and then you will not free anymore! Not a lick author. Absolutely. You than the truth. For more than
Suketu has now become a friend. Then
him there, with the holy patience to tell his stories.
About town, a city sovravvollata, a city that many see as their salvation. The place to be what you want. A sort of medieval new common for the Indian continent, the city where you can become a peasant or worker sleeping on the sidewalk and aspire to be a poet, the city where you can become a movie star. The City of the underworld and the beautiful dancers of the Beer Bar
I love everything about cities, towns without even river, city by the sea, as Mumbai.
It is not the same story seen in other books. This report is a true, factual and scientific Suteku that my friend made his native homeland / adoptive. Yes, because
S. born on the other coast, and Calcutta area with his family, wealthy merchants because diamond is to move to Bombay, still so named. You grew up and lived his early teens, in a condominium in a particular area of \u200b\u200bthe city that I would love to remember the name but .. Then the family moved to NY and he suffers from nostalgia, a lot. Does not feel American, and finding a place not to hear her children abroad, he returned to what is known as Mumbai with his wife grew up in London. This opens up
chapters where chapters weaves his personal experiences on how to enroll a child in school or how does the connection of water, the bribe to get a working phone line etc.. What emerges is an Indian company in two levels, that morally high, the beggar at the diamond dealer, which respects the precepts of religion, any of the three great religions that crowd India, and the lower, which is not that does not overlap the first person in the same moments of life, which is used to sopprusi police, the complicity between politics and mafia, having to deal with petty thieves, abbusi on children by teachers and so on.
Well, I have to say. If you have an idea of \u200b\u200bIndia mythologized by the precepts of Gandhi, from Yoga, Hinduism, the colors of the spices, whatever you face appear mystical and ethereal, here, here you can compare with reality.
... and yes, it could be a shock, but not it will be.
Suteku will do justice to his Mother India.
Suketu Mehta's Maximum City
The city of excess
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