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Mother India : a novel
- Title
- Mother India : a novel / Tova Reich.
- Author
- Reich, Tova
- Publication
- Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- 253 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Reich is the author of the novels "One Hundred Philistine Foreskins," "My Holocaust," "The Jewish War," "Master of the Return," and "Mara." Her stories have appeared in the "Atlantic," "Harper's," "AGNI," "Ploughshares," and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the National Magazine Award for Fiction, the Edward Lewis Wallant Book Award, as well as other prizes."--
- "'Literary, lyrical, and cuttingly satiric, Mother India is a brilliantly original novel about Jews who go to India to find transformation and eternal release from the sufferings of life. Narrated in luminous prose by Meena, a Jewish American lesbian who has claimed India as her home, the novel is vividly populated by the darkly comic universe of three generations of women along with other family members, as well as by the Indians whose world they seek to penetrate. There is Meena's religiously observant mother, Ma, whose desire to remove herself from the wheel of life plays out in a Faulknerian funeral procession and cremation on the banks of the holy river Ganges; Meena's daughter, Maya, a misunderstood child coming of age in an emotionally treacherous household; her ex-wife, Geeta, a privileged and hedonistic Indian woman who enters their world with devastating consequences; Meena's twin brother, Shmelke, a charismatic rabbi turned guru and international fugitive; and the Indian servant, Manika, whose loyalty to the family both sustains and shackles them."--
- Subjects
- Jews
- Women > Fiction
- Jewish fiction
- Parent and child > Fiction
- FICTION / Satire
- Satire
- United States
- India > Fiction
- Jews > United States > Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Lesbians > Fiction
- Jews > India > Fiction
- Americans > India > Fiction
- Divorced people > Fiction
- Satirical literature
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Jewish
- Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Satirical literature.
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Satire.
- Contents
- Ma -- Maya -- Meena.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-1652
- ISBN
- 9780815611066
- 0815611064
- LCCN
- 2018024320
- OCLC
- 1037292064
- Author
- Reich, Tova, author.
- Title
- Mother India : a novel / Tova Reich.
- Publisher
- Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Form:
- Online version: Reich, Tova. Mother India. First edition. Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2018 9780815654544 (DLC) 2018025396
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-1652