Sunetra Gupta
Auteur van Memories of Rain: A Novel
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- Gangbare naam
- Gupta, Sunetra
- Geboortedatum
- 1965-03-15
- Geslacht
- female
- Woonplaatsen
- Calcutta, India (birth)
- Opleiding
- Princeton University (biology)
University of London (Ph. D.)
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- 8
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- 267
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- #86,454
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- 3.2
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- 6
- ISBNs
- 29
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- 1
“Memories of rain” is about the passion which they had once shared and traces the thoughts and emotions of Moni and Anthony through three days. Moni has decided to return to India, taking their daughter with her, on the day of the girl’s birthday party, and intends their departure to be a cruel surprise for Anthony. Flashbacks highlight the changes in the couple’s relationship.
The book alternates the point of view of Moni and Anthony. Moni feels the pull of her own culture as well as the emotional dependence which her husband has cultivated in her. Anthony sees himself something akin to the old empire builders and sees her in terms of his own needs rather than as a person with her own.
'he had come to this land, like his forefathers had done, with the conviction that all he wanted would be his, he had come not with greed, only a desire for knowledge, for experience'
Hardly the basis for a sustainable marriage but this story isn't simply one of an immigrant bride who has been drawn into the obit of her husband.
Gupta employs long stream of thought sentences that go on for pages at a time similar to the writing of Virginia Woolf. There is little actual action and this isn't my favourite kind of writing. I felt that I just had to work too hard to get anything out of it and whilst I can admire Gupta's writing this novel just didn't really grip me.… (meer)