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"Seven voices contribute to this rare glimpse of the work being done on the front lines of the fight for social change in India. Playing with Fire is written in the collective voice of women employed by a large NGO as activists in their communities and is based on diaries, interviews, and conversations among them. Together their personal stories reveal larger themes and questions of sexism, casteism, and communalism, and a startling picture emerges of how NGOs both nourish and stifle local struggles for solidarity." "The Hindi edition of the book, Sangtin Yatra, published in 2004, created controversy that resulted in backlash against the authors by their employer. The publication also drew support for the women and instigated a public conversation about the issues exposed in the book. Here, Richa Nagar addresses the dispute in the context of the politics of NGOs and feminist theory, articulating how development ideology employed by aid organizations serves to reinforce the domination of those it claims to help."--BOOK JACKET.… (meer)
30. A Closed Eye by Anita Brookner OPD: 1991 format: 263-page paperback (1993 edition) acquired: May 2022 read: May 1-7 time reading: 9:17, 2.1 mpp rating: 4½ genre/style: Novel theme: TBR locations: London and Brighton, England and Switzerland about the author: 1928-2016. English author and art historian who published a novel a year from 1981 to 2003. She was born in Herne Hill, outside London, and was Jewish and of Polish descent.
The first time I've read a novel by Brookner. This novel was so clean and polished and easy and perfect.
Quietly obedient Harriet Lytton has an imperfect, or worse, marriage to an older man, and pins her hopes a daughter she raises to be independent, and who naturally grows up to be independent of her mom. This novel does some really meaningful stuff, looking at loneliness, desire, and disappointment, the costs of time and aging, and how difficult all these things are to talk about. So much unspoken, undone. It all feels relatable and real.
Another sad story about a kind and cautious woman who suffers through her adult life because of these traits. It is a memorable novel because the writing is great; and the emotions it reveals move the reader as only an artist like Brookner so often has done. There is a surprise ending that prefigures some respite and renewal for the main character, Harriet.
The entire book reads like a narrative summary of the book Brookner meant to write. I liked it well enough but was also disappointed there wasn't more precision and detail. ( )
This story is like Henry James or Virginia Wolfe in that it's 10% action and 90% the thoughts, dreams, fears, and anxieties of the characters. Part way through I wasn't sure about it but it grew on me as I finished it and then afterwards. ( )
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"My dear Lizzie", (she wrote), "No doubt you will be surprised to hear from me after all this time, and from such a strange place."
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She was silent, as always, when this matter arose, not quite knowing how to convey the fact that Freddie's death was the last link in the chain that had once bound her to her own life, that she had in more ways than one outlived him, even before he died, and that she now functioned in ghostly form as if all the living substances had been withdrawn, and only her strong and obvious heart, beating away imperviously, held her on this earth.
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"Seven voices contribute to this rare glimpse of the work being done on the front lines of the fight for social change in India. Playing with Fire is written in the collective voice of women employed by a large NGO as activists in their communities and is based on diaries, interviews, and conversations among them. Together their personal stories reveal larger themes and questions of sexism, casteism, and communalism, and a startling picture emerges of how NGOs both nourish and stifle local struggles for solidarity." "The Hindi edition of the book, Sangtin Yatra, published in 2004, created controversy that resulted in backlash against the authors by their employer. The publication also drew support for the women and instigated a public conversation about the issues exposed in the book. Here, Richa Nagar addresses the dispute in the context of the politics of NGOs and feminist theory, articulating how development ideology employed by aid organizations serves to reinforce the domination of those it claims to help."--BOOK JACKET.
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OPD: 1991
format: 263-page paperback (1993 edition)
acquired: May 2022 read: May 1-7 time reading: 9:17, 2.1 mpp
rating: 4½
genre/style: Novel theme: TBR
locations: London and Brighton, England and Switzerland
about the author: 1928-2016. English author and art historian who published a novel a year from 1981 to 2003. She was born in Herne Hill, outside London, and was Jewish and of Polish descent.
The first time I've read a novel by Brookner. This novel was so clean and polished and easy and perfect.
Quietly obedient Harriet Lytton has an imperfect, or worse, marriage to an older man, and pins her hopes a daughter she raises to be independent, and who naturally grows up to be independent of her mom. This novel does some really meaningful stuff, looking at loneliness, desire, and disappointment, the costs of time and aging, and how difficult all these things are to talk about. So much unspoken, undone. It all feels relatable and real.
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