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Loading... El vagón de las mujeres (original 2001; edition 2002)by Anita Nair, Manu Berátegui (Translator)
Work InformationLadies Coupé by Anita Nair (2001)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Here's what I wrote in 2008 about this read: "Six women brought together riding an Indian train. Another book lending help to learn more about the Indian culture, and the roles of women in that culture and with their families." ( ) If you love novels with a passel of strangers coming together involuntarily within enclosed spaces, this one's for you. The setting is an overnight train in South India, and the women who share a sleeping compartment designated for women are: Akhila, primary protagonist, forced to become head of household after her father dies; Janaki, mother of a selfish and spoiled son; Sheela, recalling her beloved grandmother's sad death; Margaret, saddled with a big-headed liar for a husband; and Marikolanthu, a village girl mistreated by her wealthy employer. Each story is movingly told, with Akhila's own saga interwoven between those of the others. A perfect summer read and a fine introduction to this area of the country, culturally removed from the tourist worlds of the Taj Mahal and the large cities of the north. Mixed feelings about this book. I'm kind of off of novels about groups of women who get together and come to some sort of self fulfillment or realization of their empowerment. I'd hoped that the lure of India might take the somewhat sour taste of these novels out of my mouth. It did...sort of. Not enough to make me really enjoy the book, but enough so that I didn't abandon it. It's probably my frame of mind, no fault of the writer. I just wasn't that enamored of it all. Maybe the next reader will be. PS I really despised the end. no reviews | add a review
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Meet Akhilandeswari, Akhila for short- forty-five and single, an income-tax clerk, and a woman who has never been allowed to live her own life - always the daughter, the sister, the aunt, the provider. Until the day she gets herself a one-way ticket to the seaside town of Kanyakumari. In the intimate atmosphere of the all-women sleeping car - the 'Ladies Coup-' - Akhila asks the five women she is travelling with the question that has been haunting her all her adult life- can a woman stay single and be happy, or does she need a man to feel complete? This wonderfully atmospheric, deliciously warm novel takes the reader into the heart of women's lives in contemporary India, revealing how the dilemmas that women face in their relationships with husbands, mothers, friends, employers and children are the same the world over. No library descriptions found. |
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