Sách - The Parcel by Anosh Irani (UK edition, paperback) tại Pretty Cosmetics

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Publisher: Independent Alliance

Origin: United Kingdom (Imported)

ISBN 13: 9781911344452

Condition: Brandnew

Binding: paperback

Pages: 304

Dimensons: 210 x 135 x 30 | 400 (gram)

‘There is a term for me in almost every Indian language. I am reviled and revered, deemed to have been blessed, and cursed, with sacred powers.’

In the swollen and crumbling red-light district of Kamathipura, at the heart of Bombay, Madhu is given a difficult and potentially lucrative task by her housemother — to prepare a newly arrived ‘parcel’ for its opening. The parcel is a ten-year-old girl from the provinces, sold into the trade by her aunt.

Madhu’s home is Hijra House, one of the last bastions in the land war slowly consuming the area, as property developers vie for land. It is here that ‘hijras’ — eunuchs, people of the third sex, 'neither here nor there’ — ply their trade. Now forty and with her looks and spirit waning, Madhu struggles with the task she has been given, confronted by memories of her past, of how she was rejected by her family — and by how she longs, secretly, to go back to them. Everything is dissolving within and around her. Then, as the land war comes to a head, and with her housemother coming under pressure by the hijra elders to sell their home, Madhu realises she must do something to save herself.

The Parcel is the masterful new novel from acclaimed author Anosh Irani, and is a savage and beautifully rendered story about community, belonging, and the cheapness of human life.

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‘Irani’s portrait of Madhu and her community is tender and heroic, comic and tragic, dignified and destitute all at once.’

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‘The Parcel is such a fantastically moving novel … one of the most heartbreaking and fascinating novels I’ve read all year.’

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‘The Parcel is a magnificent novel, with powerfully imagined characters who yanked me into their lives from the first page and would not let go of me until the last. It is bold, bawdy, tender, funny, sorrowful, all that life is made up of, and when I did reach the end I felt abandoned.’

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‘Immersive and devastating, The Parcel is a searing tale of personal transformation amid toxic patriarchy. Madhu is at once pathetic and honourable, despicable and mighty — and imbued with such complexity, Irani brings dignity to all the transgender sex-workers of India.’

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‘Harrowing, enraging, unexpectedly humorous, and also profoundly sad, The Parcel is a haunting work of fiction that illuminates the ways in which history, both political and personal, pervades the present day.’

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‘As engrossing as any thriller, Anosh Irani’s fourth novel offers readers so much more … The Parcel captivates with its vividly rendered characters and commands the reader’s attention by way of unnerving — and at times profoundly disturbing — portraiture of an abject group at the bottom of an already denigrated community at the heart of India’s booming financial hub, Mumbai … Irani’s compassion for these discarded souls, and the assertion of their essential dignity, renders them simultaneously touching and distressing.’

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‘Madhu is an ambiguous figure in many ways, and Irani delves deeply into her sad past among a world of outcasts. Pulling its readers’ sympathies in conflicting directions, The Parcel is a challenging novel, sharp and uncompromisingly written.’

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‘Part of the way this excellent book heals such a sprawling, horrifying reality is with beauty and religious depth.’

• Shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Governor General's Literary Awards (Canada), and chosen as a 'book of the year' by Quill and Quire.
• For readers of Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, and Behind the Beautiful Forevers.

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‘The material can be desolating, but Irani generates plenty of black comic detail, evoking the vividness and moral ambiguity of the best Indian noir.’ PICK OF THE WEEK

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‘Deeply etched in man’s inhumanity to man and his capacity for both depravity and redemption.’

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‘Irani takes readers into the depths of Mumbai’s teeming Kamathipura district, whose economy depends on prostitution bing on slavery. The story centres on eunuch and former sex worker Madhu — now a beggar and sometime aid to a powerful madam — who is called on to groom a pre-teen Nepalese girl for work in the brothel. Sounds grim, but Irani’s ear is attuned to the raucous humour of the sex workers as they do what they can to maintain their dignity. A harsh dose of reality administered with wit and clarity.’<

Giá sản phẩm trên Tiki đã bao gồm thuế theo luật hiện hành. Bên cạnh đó, tuỳ vào loại sản phẩm, hình thức và địa chỉ giao hàng mà có thể phát sinh thêm chi phí khác như phí vận chuyển, phụ phí hàng cồng kềnh, thuế nhập khẩu (đối với đơn hàng giao từ nước ngoài có giá trị trên 1 triệu đồng).....