Sister of My Heart
by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
A beautiful love story. Of those that are good for the heart, from those that wish to meet people like to live with them a story like that.
have two children, then teenagers and then adults, the main characters. Two sisters who are not even sisters. They think they are cousins \u200b\u200bbut they are not even cousins. They are best friends, ready to make any sacrifice for each other, each waiver in the greatest discretion and with the greatest generosity.
grow together in a big house with three women who are mothers and aunts and accomplices and counselor. The fathers have left to live an adventure that you will know everything at the end. And growing up in Calcutta, in Calcutta today where men are computer scientists and engineers, specializing in travel and America. Positions involved, the men, but in private life, continue to be subjugated by the wishes of mothers, according to ancient traditions. And if people decide their mothers, the girls decide to mothers of males and their own mothers.
An all-female world, in short, that dominates and suffering.
No one can escape the traditions. The girls can not and will choose the man to marry, the conditioning of society is very heavy.
This is one of the most interesting parts of the book: the contrast between the new, so advanced, and the old well-rooted.
The style of this writer is transparent, linear, with beautiful reflections on the realities of life, feelings, waivers that women face. The female characters are beautiful and perfect in their roles.
I saw our country fifty years ago, when the girls and restrictions imposed discipline and behavior. And the reports were to be settled only by the family. The relationship of love between the protagonists made me relive the same relationship with one of my sisters lived. We love unconditionally until the facts have revealed that perhaps was not true at all.
They instead (but it happens only in books?), Were able to get to the bottom.
The disappointment of this book, so nice, so true, came in the final inspired Invernizio Carolina or Les Miserables for the insertion of a discovery rather unlikely.
However it is worth reading for the transparency and strength of feelings that gives us in the previous 300 pages.
MGMC
May 7, 2007
