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Molitva Moje Majke (2009)

by Nafisa Haji(Favorite Author)

3.76 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Znanje, Zagreb

review 1: Prekrasna, dirljiva, pametna, naprosto briljantna! Ne znam koji put ću reći - kako volim dok netko zna pisati. Ovo je prvi roman Nafise Haji (kod nas je naslov malo nespretno preveden kao "Molitva moje majke", ali s druge strane, ni ne mogu se baš domisliti kako bih ga ja prevela na bolji način), ali imam osjećaj da ta žena, zapravo, piše cijeli život i da je ovaj roman samo ono što je prvo prikazano javnosti. Jer ona piše izvanredno, znalački, majstorski vodi priču od početka do kraja i usput vas uspije tako dirnuti da vam treba neko vrijeme da se ponovno "pokupite". Ovo je priča o jednoj velikoj indijsko-pakistanskoj obitelji, njihovim vezama i međusobnoj povezanosti, s posebnim naglaskom na žene u toj obitelji. Bilo mi je tako lako vezati se za neke liko... moreve, zavoljela sam ih odmah i osjetila ih kao svoje. Nafisa Haji na izvrstan, suptilan način prikazuje cijelu tamošnju kulturu i način života (inače, ne žive oni svi u Indiji i Pakistanu, razasuti su po cijelom svijetu!), a nikome ne propovijeda, nikoga ne kritizira (možda između redova, ali to je baš onoliko koliko je, čini mi se, potrebno) i otkriva nam stvari o kojima nemamo pojma i koje olako osuđujemo. Naratorica, Saira Qader, pričom obuhvaća razdoblje od tridesetak godina i to čini s nevjerojatnom lakoćom. Sve je izvrsno povezano, pretače se jedno u drugo i imate osjećaj da ste i sami dio njezinog svijeta. Svim srcem preporučujem.
review 2: I love a book that ends with me in tears of emotion, rather than frustration!The intricacies of relationships within families and the tensions that arise from the similarities and differences between people we are related to really kept me going through this book to read it in one day. Not all families are this complicated, and some are complicated in other ways and I was confronted by it, in a way. I think the reader can draw much from these revelations and apply courage in their own familial situations.Drawing on historical background without giving it centre stage has been critiqued in the reviews, yet I found it completely relevant to treat these things in this way. Probably from personal experience of my own family backgrounds and the secrets/twists that took place with major national events playing bit parts. The history informs how families and society come to be, but does not dictate it so much that it must be treated, somehow, more seriously in a fictional rendition of family complications. There are plenty of works one can revert to for Partition history.The only criticism I have is the misgivings about the author holding onto that last secret for so long, as it compels the reader to flick back and reread sections that are ONLY clear in light of that secret. I'm not sure how that could have been resolved alternatively, but I felt, in hindsight that there was enough there to confuse in the first read that could have been held off from and narrated in hindsight, as other secrets were throughout the story. less

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