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Em : Kim Thúy

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  While I was reading Kim’s Em [2020], I was finding a sheer similarity between divided Vietnamese and Bengalese and other likely deadly fractured lands and men all over the world as a result of rapturous colonialism in the modern period. Surprisingly, the time period was also, coincidentally, the same from early fifties to late sixties when both Vietnam and united Pakistan were going through the same struggle and sufferings in quest of independence from the chronic oppression. [DESIRES]   “Certainly, bullets kill, but so, perhaps, does desire.” I can’t help but accept it as a truism. Yes! It is our darkest desire that brings all the evil over the world.   [COOLIES]   I didn't read any other literature based on India -China's indentured labor in European and Latin American countries. History refuses to accept the truth about indentured labor but it was indirectly like African slavery.   Tâm, Alexandre, and Mai are examples of Hegelian historical and ...

Love Novel : Ivana Sajko

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Kapitel 1: A Sparrow Must Return to its Own Nest I thought the same as she thought that we have to hold our hands tight when we feel bad for each other, similarly, we should not stay away so far that our shadows do not cross one another. And at last, we have to keep a thing alive in our mind as she hoped, ‘All this will pass’.  We have to return to our beloved after an exhausting day out like the little sparrow comes back to its nest in the evening in Ivana’s Sajko’s Love Novel (2022). Kapitel 2: Why Do We Forget ourselves to Remember Other Are there any options out there for us other than accepting the fact that we are confined to overlook our own issues in exchange for being busy with the others. We are more mindful of the sound of the door bells of our next door. Kapitel 3: A life is an Anaphora We live our life on a wheel of repetition but on the different paths that only make it assorted and save our spirit for going along. Kapitel 4: Que sera, sera [What will be, will be] How...