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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 ...

The Gospel According to the New World : Maryse Condé

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Gospel is the first novel of Maryse Condé I have read ever. And I am blown out from this unequal world but come back to read her rest of the books.  Bulgarian Gospodinov's Time Shelter sends the present times to the past whereas Guadeloupean Maryse's Gospel brings the past times to the present.  Gondé has assembled the brief narrative of the world in this  new kind of novel, as daring and dearing as I have been searching for. Richard Philcox's creative collaboration with Maryse Condé as translator and partner is one of the  finest literary pairs in the history of literature. It will require a hack of time to write a complete review so I have just written my first impression on each chapter of the Gospel. 1. Less The history of love marriage and the culture of their validation are all under the pitch-black doubt. 2. Diversity  The history of homogeneities and the cultures of sapiens are all constructed and a mere evolution in essence. 3.Words It's a word that for...