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Bezig met laden... The Red Letters: My Father's Enchanted Perioddoor Ved Mehta
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Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Continents of Exile (11)
The story has its origins in the sixties, when Mehta by chance finds his father weeping uncontrollably on his mother's shoulder during a New York dinner party. As a result, the son begins to unravel a family mystery that takes him on a painful and revealing voyage into his father's British past in Simla, the magical hill station. Step-by-step, he is forced to confront his father's passionate clandestine affair with Rasil, an exquisite beauty who in her teens was abducted from her poor family and raped. She was subsequently rescued by a Hindu philanthropist, only to end up trapped in an abusive marriage to a rich businessman. Mehta's exploration of his father's love affair proves painful, as the son realizes that the entanglement, a passing episode in sixty-one years of a loving marriage, had shattering psychological side effects on his mother--a close friend of Rasil's--and also on his own life. The Red Letters is Mehta's masterpiece, a work of extraordinary intensity that perfectly re-creates the exotic, closed world of British India. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Last in Mehta's "Continents of Exile" series, and following on from books he wrote about both his father's and his mother's life, all sorts of illusions about his father's life and his parents' marriage are shattered. Ved's father gives him the text of a short story he's written, but being a doctor and self-proclaimed man of science and truth, he's not very good at masking the truth. Ved soon realises he's looking at a work of autobiography, and then has to reassess a lot of his own past, including the inclusion of a certain Aunty.
As usual, the writing is confiding and self-assured so that we follow through the story as if listening to a lecture or presentation. I look forward to the time when I can read all these books in order, as I gradually acquire the set. ( )