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Set in Malaysia, this spellbinding and already internationally acclaimed debut introduces us to the prosperous Rajasekharan family as its closely guarded secrets are slowly peeled away. When Chellam, the family's rubber-plantation-bred servant girl, is dismissed for unnamed crimes, her banishment is the latest in a series of recent, precipitous losses that have shaken six-year-old Aasha's life. A few short weeks before, Aasha's grandmother Paati passed away under mysterious circumstances and her older sister, Uma, departed for Columbia Universityâ??leaving Aasha alone to cope with her mostly absent father, her bitter mother, and her imperturbable older brother. Beginning with Aasha's grandfather's ascension from Indian coolie to illustrious resident of the Big House on Kingfisher Lane, and going on to tell the story of how Appa, the family's Oxford-educated patriarch, courted Amma, the humble girl next door, Evening Is the Whole Day moves gracefully backward and forward in time to answer the many questions that haunt the family: What was Chellam's unforgivable crime? Why was Uma so intent on leaving? How and why did Paati die? What did Aasha see? And, underscoring all of these mysteries: What ultimately became of Appa's once-grand dreams for his family and his country? Sweeping in scope, sumptuously lyrical, and masterfully constructed, Evening Is the Whole Day offers an unflinching look at relationships between parents and children, brothers and sisters, the wealthy and the poor, a country and its citizensâ??and the ways in which each sometimes fails the other. Illuminating in heartbreaking detail one Indian immigrant family's secrets and lies while exposing the complex underbelly of Malaysia itself, Preeta Samarasan's debut is a mesmerizing and vital achievement sure to earn her a place alongside Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, and Zadie Smith… (mehr)
bibliobibuli: This is the only other Malaysian novel which examines the fallout of the May 13th racial riots - the great untalked about in Malaysia and the great unwritten about in its fiction.
Die Großmutter ist tot - Ursache dafür ist, dass sie gestoßen wurde. Aber wer war es? Schnell wird die Hausangestellte Chellam als Schuldige ausgemacht - aufgrund einer Lüge. Denn in Wirklichkeit war sie nicht einmal in der Nähe...In Rückblenden wird die Geschichte der Familie aufgezeigt, die zu dem Todesfall führt.
Also ich muss sagen, sooooo schlecht fand ich das Buch nicht. Und zwar gerade wegen der Rückblenden. Wäre die Geschichte von Anfang bis Ende durcherzählt worden, wäre sie sehr schnell langweilig geworden.
Egoismus ist das prägenden Element dieser Geschichte - er ermöglicht die Lügen, das Verschweigen....besonders der Vater ist mir zutiefst unsympathisch - und das von Anfang an. Aber auch Patti und der Rest der Familie können keine Sympathiepunkte sammeln. ( )
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History begins only at the point where things go wrong; history is born only with trouble, with perplexity, with regret. Waterland
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September 6, 1980: There is, stretching delicate as a bird's head from the thin neck of the Kra Isthmus, a land that makes up half of the country called Malaysia.
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Set in Malaysia, this spellbinding and already internationally acclaimed debut introduces us to the prosperous Rajasekharan family as its closely guarded secrets are slowly peeled away. When Chellam, the family's rubber-plantation-bred servant girl, is dismissed for unnamed crimes, her banishment is the latest in a series of recent, precipitous losses that have shaken six-year-old Aasha's life. A few short weeks before, Aasha's grandmother Paati passed away under mysterious circumstances and her older sister, Uma, departed for Columbia Universityâ??leaving Aasha alone to cope with her mostly absent father, her bitter mother, and her imperturbable older brother. Beginning with Aasha's grandfather's ascension from Indian coolie to illustrious resident of the Big House on Kingfisher Lane, and going on to tell the story of how Appa, the family's Oxford-educated patriarch, courted Amma, the humble girl next door, Evening Is the Whole Day moves gracefully backward and forward in time to answer the many questions that haunt the family: What was Chellam's unforgivable crime? Why was Uma so intent on leaving? How and why did Paati die? What did Aasha see? And, underscoring all of these mysteries: What ultimately became of Appa's once-grand dreams for his family and his country? Sweeping in scope, sumptuously lyrical, and masterfully constructed, Evening Is the Whole Day offers an unflinching look at relationships between parents and children, brothers and sisters, the wealthy and the poor, a country and its citizensâ??and the ways in which each sometimes fails the other. Illuminating in heartbreaking detail one Indian immigrant family's secrets and lies while exposing the complex underbelly of Malaysia itself, Preeta Samarasan's debut is a mesmerizing and vital achievement sure to earn her a place alongside Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, and Zadie Smith
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Also ich muss sagen, sooooo schlecht fand ich das Buch nicht. Und zwar gerade wegen der Rückblenden. Wäre die Geschichte von Anfang bis Ende durcherzählt worden, wäre sie sehr schnell langweilig geworden.
Egoismus ist das prägenden Element dieser Geschichte - er ermöglicht die Lügen, das Verschweigen....besonders der Vater ist mir zutiefst unsympathisch - und das von Anfang an. Aber auch Patti und der Rest der Familie können keine Sympathiepunkte sammeln. (