The Naxal Novel
The Naxal Novel
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纳萨尔小说
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2014
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Nina Martyris
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Nina Martyris
《低地》是琼帕·拉希里的第二部小说，故事发生在西孟加拉加尔各答的一家英国乡村俱乐部托利根俱乐部。这一年是1956年，尽管印度赢得自由已经过去了十年，但伊丽莎白女王的肖像装饰着俱乐部的主客厅。两个孟加拉兄弟偷偷越过俱乐部的围墙，敬畏地凝视着它的高尔夫球场。Subhash和Udayan Mitra属于中产阶级家庭。他们居住在靠近名义上的低地的一片不起眼的房屋飞地里，这是一片沼泽地，在季风期间会泛滥。在它的外围，数百名来自东孟加拉邦的分治难民在越来越多的垃圾堆之间搭起了麻布和竹子的小屋。俱乐部的围墙已经加高，以阻挡肮脏的环境，但也防止穷人看到精英的生活方式。
The Lowland—Jhumpa Lahiri’s second novel—opens on the grounds of the Tollygunge Club, a British-built country club in Calcutta, West Bengal. The year is 1956, and although a decade has passed since India won its freedom, a portrait of Queen Elizabeth graces the club’s main drawing room. Two Bengali brothers have snuck over the boundary wall of the club and are gazing at its golf course in awe. Subhash and Udayan Mitra belong to a middle-class family. They live in a modest enclave of houses near the titular lowland, a marshy sprawl that floods during the monsoon. On its periphery, hundreds of Partition refugees from East Bengal have erected huts of sackcloth and bamboo between growing piles of garbage. The club’s walls have been raised to block out the squalor but also to prevent the poor from seeing how the elite live.