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Gold Diggers de Sanjena Sathian

Gold Diggers

Autor Sanjena Sathian
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 1900

Găsim în această carte o imagine tulburătoare: o mamă și o fiică topind bijuterii din aur furate pentru a distila, printr-o rețetă alchimică arhaică, însăși esența ambiției umane. În Gold Diggers, Sanjena Sathian transformă goana după succesul american dintr-o metaforă socială într-o realitate fizică, viscerală. Urmărim parcursul lui Neil Narayan, un adolescent care nu reușește să se ridice la înălțimea așteptărilor familiei sale, și pe cel al Anitei, vecina sa aparent perfectă, a cărei strălucire academică este întreținută de acest elixir periculos. Notăm cu interes felul în care autoarea pendulează între satira ascuțită a suburbiilor din Georgia și melancolia unui San Francisco unde personajele, acum adulte, încearcă să repare traumele trecutului printr-o ultimă lovitură. Imaginați-vă tensiunea din How Much of These Hills is Gold, mutată într-un decor de suburbie americană contemporană, unde aurul nu mai este extras din pământ, ci din moștenirea și dorințele altora. Spre deosebire de explorarea istorică a lui C Pam Zhang, Sathian folosește realismul magic pentru a sublinia prețul psihologic al „visului american”. Putem afirma că romanul reușește o echilibristică rară între umorul fin și tragedia profundă a dezrădăcinării. Structura narativă, care întinde consecințele unei singure greșeli pe parcursul a zece ani, oferă o perspectivă matură asupra modului în care ne definim identitatea atunci când simțim că nu suntem niciodată „suficient de buni”.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781984882035
ISBN-10: 1984882031
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 161 x 237 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Editura: Penguin Publishing Group

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Recomandăm Gold Diggers cititorilor care caută o poveste despre maturizare ce depășește granițele realismului clasic. Este o lectură esențială pentru cei interesați de dinamica familiilor de imigranți și de presiunea succesului, oferind un amestec inedit de alchimie, critică socială și suspans. Veți câștiga o perspectivă proaspătă și ușor ironică asupra sacrificiilor necesare pentru a deveni „extraordinar” într-o lume competitivă.

Despre autor

Sanjena Sathian este o voce emergentă în literatura americană contemporană, al cărei debut, Gold Diggers, a fost rapid aclamat de publicații precum The Washington Post și The Guardian. Absolventă a prestigiosului Iowa Writers' Workshop, Sathian explorează în scrierile sale intersecția dintre identitatea culturală, mitologie și realitățile socio-politice moderne. Talentul său de a imbrica elemente fantastice în narațiuni profund umane a atras atenția industriei cinematografice, opera sa fiind în curs de adaptare pentru televiziune.

Descriere scurtă

"Gold Diggers takes a wincingly hilarious coming-of-age story, laces it with magical realism and a trace of satire, and creates a world that's both achingly familiar and marvelously inventive...This is a dizzyingly original, fiercely funny, deeply wise novel about the seductive powers--and dangers--of borrowed ambition." --Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires EverywhereA brilliant Indian-American magical realist coming of age story and the debut of a major talent Spanning two continents, two coasts, and four epochs, Gold Diggers expertly balances social satire and magical realism in a classic striver story that skewers the model minority narrative, asking what a community must do to achieve the American dream. In razor sharp and deeply funny prose, Sathian perfectly captures what it is to grow up as a member of a family, of a diaspora, and of the American meritocracy. This blockbuster novel both entertains and levels a critique of what Americans of color must do to make their way. A floundering second-generation teenager growing up in the Bush-era Atlanta suburbs, Neil Narayan is authentic, funny, and smart. He just doesn't share the same drive as everyone around him. His perfect older sister is headed to Duke. His parents' expectations for him are just as high. He tries to want this version of success, but mostly, Neil just wants his neighbor across the cul-de-sac, Anita Dayal. But Anita has a secret: she and her mother Anjali have been brewing an ancient alchemical potion from stolen gold that harnesses the ambition of the jewelry's original owner. Anjali's own mother in Bombay didn't waste the precious potion on her daughter, favoring her sons instead. Anita, on the other hand, just needs a little boost to get into Harvard. But when Neil--who needs a whole lot more--joins in the plot, events spiral into a tragedy that rips their community apart. Ten years later, Neil is an oft-stoned Berkeley history grad student studying the California gold rush. His high school cohort has migrated to Silicon Valley, where he reunites with Anita and resurrects their old habit of gold theft--only now, the stakes are higher. Anita's mother is in trouble, and only gold can save her. Anita and Neil must pull off one last heist. Gold Diggers is a fine-grained, profoundly intelligent, and bitingly funny investigation in to questions of identity and coming of age--that tears down American shibboleths.

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'In a perfect alchemical blend of familiar and un-, Gold Diggers takes a wincingly hilarious coming-of-age story, laces it with magical realism and a trace of satire, and creates a world that's both achingly familiar and marvelously inventive. Written with such assurance it's hard to believe it's Sanjena Sathian's debut, this is a dizzyingly original, fiercely funny, deeply wise novel about the seductive powers – and dangers – of borrowed ambition' Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere

'In an alchemic blend of modern American ambition and ancient myth, this sometimes fiercely funny caper, sometimes heart-breaking coming of age story, is a truly immersive read. In the end, Gold Diggers is a beautifully crafted, strange, and deeply touching story about the search for national and personal identity. A gorgeous and gripping read' Nydia Hetherington, author of A Girl Made of Air

'Is the American dream about hard work and sacrifice or is it about the lure of the Gold Rush, of quick riches there for the taking? Greed, regret and love are all at work here in Sathian’s completely original, utterly absorbing, complex and confident debut novel. A bravura performance from an exciting new voice' Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

'A work of 24-karat genius… Sathian has created a funny, compassionate, tragic novel of astonishing cultural richness… The result is a novel of Indian magic and modern technology, a parody of New World ambition and an elegy of assimilation' Washington Post

'In some ways, Gold Diggers is a delightful concoction of the best of South Asia’s literary offerings, reminiscent of Hanif Kureishi’s irreverent humour in The Buddha of Suburbia and the magic realism of Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West. But Sathian has forged a narrative path entirely her own... she tackles issues of mental health, the "model minority" trap and the generation gap with a fresh literary toolkit and voice' Guardian

'[A]chingly real reminders of what it was like to be an adolescent in post-9/11 America, feeling the weight of your parents’ dreams on your shoulders... The tension Sathian builds is one of teenage insecurity swelling into adulthood, until disillusion overthrows the tyranny of American perfectionism... exquisite prose humming with contagious anxiety' New York Times Book Review

'This terrific debut novel uses heists and alchemy to deconstruct immigrant ambition, striving and sin... what makes the novel so compelling is the playfulness with which Sathian deconstructs it. You feel for the characters and the ways they have been warped by their pursuit of greatness and the ways they are haunted by their sins – but also, there are heists and alchemy. It’s a blast' Vox 

'The coming-of-age genre meets magical realism meets heist caper… Funny and exciting, it’s an entertaining new twist on the immigrant experience' CNN

'Deftly weaves together magic and history to produce a compelling coming-of-age story' New Yorker

'Upends our ideas of what it takes to make it in America. Smart, funny and completely engrossing' Andrew Ridker, author of The Altruists

'Gold Diggers is so many things – truly funny, insightful, smart and filled with wonderful characters. I loved reading this novel, and loved watching Neil Narayan grow up and grapple with the America his immigrant parents believed in. Neil's journey to figuring out what he believes, which includes a multi-layered exploration into the properties of gold, and his strange and wonderful friendship with his next door neighbor, Anita, make this story unmissable' Ann Napolitano, bestselling author of Dear Edward

'Rollicking, at times painful and ultimately intensely satisfying... twines historical fictions and truths and family histories into the main narrative, exemplifying how time both does and does not make a linear kind of sense, how past, present and future's paths collide at times in unexpected ways' NPR

'A dazzling and delightful work of fiction by an exciting new literary talent... Sathian has produced a beguiling elixir with Gold Diggers, skilfully stirring myth into a playful yet powerful modern-day examination of the American dream and the second-generation citizens who pursue it. A fabulist amalgam of The Great Gatsby and The Catcher in the Rye, it’s an engrossing cautionary tale as well as a shrewd appraisal of what we consider success – and the moral sacrifices we make to achieve it. Imaginative and intoxicating, Gold Diggers richly rewards its readers' BookPage 

'Filled with pathos, humor, slices of American history and an adrenaline-pumping heist, Sathian's spectacular debut also highlights the steep costs of the all-American dream... Pure gold' Booklist

‘A sprawling tale of magical realism, gold heists and the quest to attain the American dream’ PopSugar

‘A feast of a story… breaks apart the mythology of monolithic culture with the perfect alchemy of humour, magic and irresistible albeit flawed people. Let it sweep you off your feet’ BuzzFeed

'A sweeping tale that combines the classic coming-of-age and teenage rebellion genre with magic realism and social satire... a riveting read... Sathian's prose potently captures the weight of the model minority myth and the constraints it places on a certain subset of Asian Americans' Huffington Post

'Sathian’s satire is pitch perfect… She captures not only the melancholia of the immigrant’s social estrangement, but also the painful expectation that this melancholia should be worth it somehow, that one should achieve and then achieve some more… The heist is magnificent – canny and moving and just plain fun… Her prose lifts off: there’s a delight she takes in writing humorously about magic that shows off the scope of her immense talent.' LA Review of Books

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A coming-of-age story with a Midas touch and a brilliant and inventive debut