Blue Bay Palace

Exposing the extremes of life in a developing country, this compelling novel of doomed love shows how poverty, class divisions, and ramshackle housing become even harder to bear when luxurious resorts and rich tourists arrive on the scene Growing up on the island of Mauritius, in the Indian Ocean, lonely young Maya hopes that someday she might escape her poverty and find happiness in the desirable housing developments near the new hotels When she falls in love with a man from a well to do family, she believes that her dream is within reach, but her hopes are shattered when her lover is too weak to defy his family and agrees to an arranged marriage to a woman from his own caste For Maya, this is a crushing blow that turns her love into hatred and murderous madness Only slowly does she begin to change her outlook, finally understanding that she embodies the land she comes from, with all its antagonisms, and that it is only by embracing her identity that she can catch a precious glimpse of freedom. Best Download Blue Bay Palace By Nathacha Appanah For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Lettura decisamente scarsina La materia poteva anche essere interessante, ma nessuno dei temi trattati viene adeguatamente sviluppato n la differenza tra caste, n l inganno, n la conseguente depressione della protagonista, che sfocia al...Given my appreciation for Nathacha Appanah s debut work, Les Rochers de poudre d or , I was anxious to give her other books a try Blue Bay Palace is Appanah s second book The story is a lot simpler andconventional than Les Rochers , or even Appanah s latest work, Tropique de la violence Blue Bay Palace is sim...Looking over some of my old posts about books, I ve noticed a tendency to bend over backwards to find nice things to say in an attempt to seem fair minded, to the point that I re read the reviews and think they are a bit misleading So I decided to be a bit harsher when necessary This is one of those times.I had problems with the prose style from the first page it s trying too hard for a certain kind of literary gravitas that it can t manage, and as a result it is badly overwritten In fact th Looking over some of my old posts about books, I ve noticed a tendency to bend over backwards to find nice things to say in an attempt to seem fair minded, to the point that I re read the reviews and think they are a bit misleading So I decided to be a bit harsher when necessary This is one of those times.I had problems with the prose style from the first page it s trying too hard for a certain kind of literary gravitas that it can t manage, and as a result it is badly o...Belonging to the long standing Indian community in that country, Appanah has written a little novella in French of jealousy and murder which is supported mainly by the exoticism of its locale After all, were a writer to describe the affair of a low caste woman with a high caste man in India, people would merely shrug and say, Ho hum There s little new in this tale for a subcontinental reader, and possibly even for a watcher of Indian films it s a cliche The narrator, Maya, meets her dashi Belonging to the long standing Indian community in that country, Appanah has written a little novella in French of jealousy and...I read this in 2011 I felt like it did not reflect Mauritian life The tone of the narration was morose Not badly written, but morose The ending bothered me a lot But maybe madness isn t meant to be understood.I ll try her other works soon I won t judge her talents by one novel onlyShort story of love and obsession set in Mauritius Only character I really related to was the gardener.Read for a Francophone Lit class Was ok compared to some of our other reading, and found it interesting how much American pop culture played a role in it.

• English
• 09 November 2017
Nathacha Appanah
• Paperback
• 102 pages
• 1906300070
• Nathacha Appanah
• Blue Bay Palace