> > Here are some of the books from this year in no particular order:
1. The Liberation of Sita - Refreshing take rescuing Sita from remaining forever enshrined as the most boring, most submissive character in world mythology. It takes a Telugu woman! 2. To the Lighthouse - I don't think I can heap any more accolades on Virginia Woolf than people have in the last century. It isn't the wild ride of Orlando, or the luminous memory of childhood in The Waves, but it is an amazing portrait of married women. I don't want to say more so please read it. 3. Uzumaki - Required reading for me because I'm vending some Lovecraftian fiction from India to Spain and Mexico (it is an open ended experiment but I want it to succeed). Uzumaki is hypnotic and well, I ended up screaming at the sight of a towel soaked in a bucket in the shape of a...spiral! Read it to get the reference. I'd say it's fatalistic and antithetical to American optimism but may have been true to the 30s and 40s when Lovecraft was writing. Also, in Spanish: 1. El corazón helado - Almudena Grandes. Family saga set in the Spanish civil war. Okish. But I'm getting more into Los Pacientes del Doctor García. 2. An anthology of Antonio Machado's poetry - the best poem played on the themes of life and poetry until you weren't sure which was a toy and which had no meaning. Hindi: 1. Just begun Ret Samadhi or Tomb of Sand. -- *Translator/Owner* *AzulIndica Translations* *North Vancouver BC, Canada*
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