... and finally I succeed. 1600 pages in 7 months.
A novel long and sometimes slow. But what has this slow and took the opportunity to penetrate inside and no more out. As a TV series, beginning not at all appreciate the cadence of the stakes, you want everything at once, then, slowly, I disorders and condescends to the rhythm ...
Everything revolves around the search for the right suitor for Lata, the youngest daughter of the family Mehra.
The first episode opens on the wedding of Savita, the eldest daughter of Mehra, fair-skinned and therefore more "sposabile" than the child.
Lata, on that special day, it shows very naive and inexperienced feelings and passions that love can turn. He derogatory views the feelings.
During the festival, wonders how her sister will get to grips with the man who had never seen and does not understand how this will not only love him, but share with him their moments, intimate, just like they do with her and her mother. ..
Pran Her husband is the eldest son of Kappor and poor, and here you could open up the individual subjects of the portraits of the family: the head of household, Manesh Kapoor, who will lead us in the nerve center of the state, as Minister of State Federal, his wife, which is never even mentioned the name, anonymous solid column of his life, his brother Maan "daredevil" boyfriend in Benares, Veena, only daughter Kapoor, wife of the Kedarnath pain that we bring with melancholy in the plays of the partition.
... but the bride's family steals the scene immediately and shows protagonist is her, "Mom," the "puppeteer" of marriage, Rupa Mehra, widow bears all the responsibility to find good "parties" for their daughters. Mom, how do you call all, try to be omnipresent, to know every detail and to dramatize as much as possible. There his father, Dr.. Kishen Chand Seth, the young married Parvati, rustic and intolerant man. There is Savita, almost disturbing to her constant calm and for its just measure everything. Is counterbalanced da suo fratello maggiore, Arun, arrogante e presuntuoso nel suo stato sociale di Sahib indiano, o come lo chiamano. Mentre l'indecisione è fatta uomo in Varun, il fratello maschio più piccolo e insicuro, ancora alla ricerca del suo domani.
E con questo si chiude la breve carrellata su alcuni dei personaggio. La possiamo allargare sulla casa dei Kapoor dove si svolge il matrimonio e poi sulla città.
Brahmpur, con il Gange, i suoi gath per la cremazione, i barcaioli, il forte e il college, i campi da cricket e il club.
Ma c'è anche Calcutta e il Bengala, con la sua propria identità. Qui risiedono i Chatterji, la famiglia della moglie di Arun Mehra, la frivola Meenakshi, con la sua risata argentina.
... and here I must express my support to them, an unusual and original family: Judge Chatterji, condescends to the character of children, including less traditional, the woman, her proper husband, the eldest son, poet, my favorite among the suitors of Lata, Amit!, but we also have a mystical, Dipankar, the second daughter, Kakoli, Tapan and small, and there is a dog, not at all pleasant.
may suffice true, but it is not. We also have family
Khan, Muslim, powerful landowners in the rural district of Rudra: Nawab of Baita Saib and his two sons, Imtiaz doctor and the lawyer Firoz, then his daughter, Zainab, who follows the lives in the house dedicated to women because it follows the purdah.
Now that we have all the pieces we can weave their stories. And there are several.
There is love Lata's impossible to Kabir Durani, a fellow Muslim college. There is the friendship between Maan and Firoz, which overcomes the problems of religious conflict is not to run aground in the turbulent events of the past said the Nawab Sahib and Saeeda Bai, the "courtly" in Maan falls in love ...
There is the "shoemaker" Haresh who legitimately become the right guy, but that first morning after the wedding seems to vanish. There's the Apple
Pula and the slaughter of innocents, there Baskar and his passion for mathematics fed Dr. Durani father Kabir on which hangs the shadow of insanity of the mother ... There is
Prahna, czech shoe factory where he works Haresh, there is the interior minister LN Agarwal and his hard-fisted policy, there is the Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru down beside Manesh Kapoor during the campaign election. There
rural life and its cruel caste traditions. There is no law on Zamindari, and his controversial result.
There is a very intense and varied. Like a mirror without a cross-section of society in a particular political moment.
I can not imagine what will follow.
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