The Crooked Line (Women Writing The Middle East Ser.)
Multiculturalisme (romans), Histoire (romans), Oeuvres littéraires (romans), Asie (histoire)
Audio avec voix de synthèse, Braille automatisé
Résumé
In India's colonial past, in a time of political and social revolution, Ismat Chughtai masterfully unfolds her magna opus, The Crooked Line: the semi-autobiographical tale of a fiery-spirited, middle-class Muslim girl bent on exploring the shape and nature of consuming… desire. Writing with the same honesty and passion as her scandalous short-story, "The Quilt," Chughtai exposes the complex relationships developed between women living and working in relative seclusion, and the intellectual and emotional contradictions lying in the heart of a rebellious country on the brink of independence from the British Raj and ultimately Partition.