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The Hero's Walk
After the release of Anita Rau Badami's critically acclaimed first novel, Tamarind Mem, it was evident a promising new talent had joined the Canadian literary community. Her dazzling literary follow-up is The Hero's Walk, a novel teeming with the author's trademark tumble of the haphazard beauty, wreckage and folly of ordinary lives. Set in the dusty seaside town of Toturpuram on the Bay of Bengal, The Hero's Walk traces the terrain of family and forgiveness through the lives of an exuberant cast of characters bewildered by the rapid pace of change in today's India. Each member of the Rao family pits his or her chance at personal fulfillment against the conventions of a crumbling caste and c...
Tamarind Woman
Kamini has recently moved from India to Canada. Plunged into the past by acrimonious telephone calls and odd postcards from her mother, she tries to make sense of the eccentric family she has left behind. Why was her Mother as bitter as a tamarind with her lot in life? Why did she seem to love Roopa best, rubbing almond oil on her skin at bath-time and never scolding her for getting her sums wrong? And where did she disappear to while Dadda was away on business, leaving her daughters in the care of a superstitious old ayah? A wise and affectionate portrait of two generations of women in an Indian family, Tamarind Woman is a beautifully evocative novel that explores the mutability of memory and unravels the deep ties of love and resentment that bind mothers and daughters everywhere.
Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?
Can You Hear The Nightbird Call? Tells The Stories Of Three Women, Linked In Love And Tragedy Over A Span Of Fifty Years, Sweeping From The Partition Of India And Pakistan To The Explosion Of Air India Flight 182 Off The Coast Of Ireland In 1985. There Is Bibi-Ji&Mdash;Who Steals The Heart Of Her Sister&Rsquo;S FiancÉ And Goes With Him To Vancouver, Where They Become Pillars Of The Sikh Community&Mdash;Who Is Haunted By The Subsequent Disappearance Of Her Sister During The Violence Of Partition; Her Neighbour Leela&Mdash;Trying To Get On With The Business Of Living In This New World Of Opportunity&Mdash;Who Feels Herself Always A &Lsquo;Half And Half,&Rsquo; A Newcomer Struggling To Find He...
Women and Hinduism in Anita Rau Badami's The Hero's Walk
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Leipzig (Anglistik), course: Canadian-Asian Fiction, 6 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Anita Rau Badami’s novel The Hero’s Walk is about an Indian Brahmin family finding its way within the Hindu tradition at the end of the twentieth century. Still believing in conventional attitudes but also being confronted with contemporary problems they have to adapt themselves and reconsider their opinions about what is important in life. Though it is Sripathi Rao, the 52-year-old family father, who is in the centre of the story the complex characte...
Tamarind Mem
A beautiful and brilliant portrait of two generations of women. Set in India’s railway colonies, this is the story of Kamini and her mother Saroja, nicknamed Tamarind Mem due to her sour tongue. While in Canada beginning her graduate studies, Kamini receives a postcard from her mother saying she has sold their home and is travelling through India. Both are forced into the past to confront their dreams and losses and to explore the love that binds mothers and daughters everywhere.
The Hero's Walk
Steeped in the colors, customs and sensuality of India "The Hero's Walk" is a moving story of a family and the potential for heroism in the small acts of ordinary people.
Heroism in Anita Rau Badami's novel "The Hero's Walk". An analysis of the female protagonists
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7 (A-), University of Leipzig (Institute for Anglistics), course: Seminar: Novels of the Indian Diaspora, 4 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: [...] This paper will firstly take a closer look at certain plot patterns and will then investigate how these patterns can be applied to the novel. Afterwards, we will deal with different concepts of characters – how they can be categorised and analysed and we will then try to describe some of the female protagonists of The Hero ́s Walk.
Tamarind Mem
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Tell it to the Trees
Anu Krishnan, seeking refuge from city life, becomes a tenant of the seemingly happy, tightly-knit Dharma family in a small northern town in B.C. But the Dharma family holds secrets which begin to spill out, brought on by Anu's presence, and leading to tragic consequences.!
Tell It to the Trees
One freezing winter morning a dead body is found in the backyard of the Dharma family’s house. It’s the body of Anu Krishnan. For Anu, a writer seeking a secluded retreat from the city, the Dharmas’ “back-house” in the sleepy mountain town of Merrit’s Point was the ideal spot to take a year off and begin writing. She had found the Dharmas’ rental through a happy coincidence. A friend from university who had kept tabs on everyone in their graduating year – including the quiet and reserved Vikram Dharma and his first wife, Helen – sent her the listing. Anu vaguely remembered Vikram but had a strong recollection of Helen, a beautiful, vivacious, social and charming woman. But ...
