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Choice
From Booker-shortlisted author Neel Mukherjee, a devastating new novel that exposes the myths of individual choice. How have we come to live this way? At what cost? Who pays the price?
€ 26,50 -
Le passé continu
Ritwik Gosh, 22 ans, ayant quitté sa ville natale de Calcutta après la mort de sa mère, décide de s'établir en Angleterre dans les années 1990 avec l'espoir de repartir à zéro. Mais pour cela, Ritwik doit commencer par donner un sens à son passé, et surtout exorciser les relations dévorantes qu'il a entretenues avec sa mère, et qui lui ont laissé tant de cicatrices... Ritwik va tenter sa chance à Oxford, puis à Londres, mais peu à peu son existence se délite dans les bas-fonds incertains de la ville, là où survivent les immigrants illégaux. Pour conjurer sa solitude, il s'évade dans l'écriture, et imagine la vie d'une Anglaise établie au Bengale, Miss Gilby, qui enseigne l'anglais, la musique et les bonnes manières occidentales à l'épouse d'un notable bengali, juste avant la partition de l'Inde. Ritwik est logé chez une vieille dame de 86 ans, Anne Cameron, fragile et blessée, qui lui offre l'hospitalité en échange de soins dont elle a besoin. Une nuit, dans les environs peu sûrs de King's Cross, Ritwik fait la rencontre du mystérieux Zafar bin Hashm, incroyablement riche, possible marchand d'armes. Ritwik pourra-t-il enfin trouver la rédemption à laquelle il aspire tant ? Ce roman puissant, plein de compassion, écrit avec une implacable honnêteté, explore avec talent les liens qu'entretient le héros avec le réel et l'imaginaire. Traduit de l'anglais par Valérie Rosier
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Choice
Dazzling...by turns comic, lyrical and heartbreaking' Monica AliChoice is a bold and dramatic novel that asks the reader to consider: should we be driven by moral values or market values? And how will the choices we make affect our work, our relationships and our place in the world? In three ingeniously linked but distinct narratives, we meet a publisher who is at war with his industry and himself/an academic who exchanges one story for another, after an accident that brings a stranger into her life/and a family in rural India whose lives are destroyed by a gift. Together these stories, each of which has devastating unintended consequences, form a breath-taking exploration of freedom, responsibility and ethics. They reappraise assumptions about race, appropriation and the economy of our cultural world. Choice is a masterful enquiry into how we should live our lives, and how we should tell them.'a magnificent achievement' Namwali Serpell'a superb writer... his greatest work yet' Michelle de Kretser
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Choice
"How ought one to live?" This is the question that obsesses London-based publisher Ayush, driving him to question every act of consumption. He embarks on a radical experiment in his own life and the lives of those connected to him: his practical economist husband; their twins; and even the authors he edits and publishes. One of those authors, a mysterious M. N. Opie, writes a story about a young academic involved in a car accident that causes her life to veer in an unexpected direction. Another author, an economist, describes how the gift of a cow to an impoverished family on the West Bengal-Bangladesh border sets them on a startling path to tragedy. Together, these connected narratives raise the question: How free are we really to make our own choices? In a scathing, compassionate quarrel with the world, Neel Mukherjee confronts our fundamental assumptions about economics, race, appropriation, and the tangled ethics of contemporary life.
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A State of Freedom
In this stunning novel, prize-winning author Neel Mukherjee wrests open the central, defining events of our century: displacement and migration. Five characters, in very different circumstances-from a domestic cook in Mumbai, to a vagrant and his dancing bear, to a girl who escapes terror in her home village for a new life in the city-find out the meanings of dislocation and the desire for more. Set in contemporary India and moving between the reality of this world and the shadow of another, this novel of multiple narratives-formally daring, fierce, but full of pity-delivers a devastating and haunting exploration of the unquenchable human urge to strive for a different life.
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Lives of Others
The aging patriarch and matriarch of the Ghosh family preside over their large household, made up of their five adult children and their respective children, unaware that beneath the barely ruffled surface of their lives the sands are shifting. Each set of family members occupies a floor of the home, in accordance to their standing within the family. Poisonous rivalries between sisters-in-law, destructive secrets, and the implosion of the family business threaten to unravel bonds of kinship as social unrest brews in greater Indian society. This is a moment of turbulence, of inevitable and unstoppable change: the chasm between the generations, and between those who have and those who have not, has never been wider. The eldest grandchild, Supratik, compelled by his idealism, becomes dangerously involved in extremist political activism-an action that further catalyzes the decay of the Ghosh home. Ambitious, rich, and compassionate, The Lives of Others anatomizes the soul of a nation as it unfolds a family history, at the same time as it questions the nature of political action and the limits of empathy. It is a novel of unflinching power and emotional force.
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The Lives of Others
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Neel Mukherjee delivers a powerful, epic story of a family and a nation.
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Özgür Topraklar
Ödüllü yazar Neel Mukherjee, Özgür Topraklarda yüzyilin merkezine yerlesen kavramlariisliyor Göc ve iltica. Farkli hayatlar yasayan bes karakter üzerinden, -Mumbaideki birascidan, sokaktaki dilenciye ve dans eden ayisina, sehirde yeni bir yasam icin köyündeki zorluhayatini terk eden genc kizdan, hayallerinin pesinde her seyini yitiren insaat iscisine- dahafazlasini istemenin, yeni bir hayata göc etme arzusunun temellerine iniyor. Hindistanda gecenve bu dünyanin gercekligiyle digerinin gölgesi arasinda hareket eden Özgür Topraklar,birbirine baglanan hikayelerle yükselen incelikli bir yapi. Cüretkar, siddetli, ama bir o kadar damerhamet dolu bu roman, insanin hayatta kalma ve hayatina hakim olma dürtülerininetkileyici bir kesfini sunuyor. Özgür Topraklar, rahat bir sekilde yasayan bizler icin neredeyse kimsenin bu rahatliga sahip olmadigi bir dünyayi hayal etmemizi gerektiriyor. Bu, Neel Mukherjeenin etkisinin,tutkusunun ve gücünün bir isareti. - The New York TimesTek kelimeyle muhtesem... Özgür Topraklar, bas döndürücü güzellikte bir roman veMukherjeenin cagimizin en özgün ve yetenekli yazarlarindan biri oldugunun kaniti. - NPRNeel Mukherjeenin nefes kesen romani Özgür Topraklar, okudugum en güzel seylerden biri;kelimenin tam anlamiyla huzursuz eden, unutulmaz sahnelerle dolu, görüntülerin, dilin vekarakterlerin yani sira bir toplumun servet ve güc esitsizligi karsisindaki öfkesini, amansizhalini gözler önüne seren bir kitap. Uzun, cok uzun zamandir okudugum en sasirtici ve enparlak roman. - Hanya YanagiharaOlaganüstü bir basari. Ince ve cok katmanli kurgusu, sosyal adaletsizligin vahsetinin birtablosu; düskün hayatlar yasamak zorunda kalan karakterlerinin onuru üstünde israrla duranbir anlati. Cok güclü ve etkileyici bir roman. Bitirdigim an, tekrar basladim. - The Guardian Yazar HakkindaNeel Mukherjee Kalkütada dünyaya gelmis ve egitiminin bir kismini burada almis, daha sonraOxford ve Cambridge gibi prestijli üniversitelerde lisans egitimini tamamlamistir. Kaleme aldigiThe Lives of Others, A Life Apart ve Past Continuous ile büyük capta ses getirmistir. Bununyani sira Times ve Sunday Telegraphta edebiyat elestirileri ve incelemeleri yapmakta, TLS,Daily Telegraph, Observer, New York Times ve Boston Review gibi cesitli mecralardayazarligini sürdürmektedir. Man Booker Edebiyat Ödülü ve Costa Edebiyat Ödülüne adaygösterilmistir.
€ 23,99