Hello, I wanted to tell you about this book. I hope that's ok - I think it's the kind of thing this group might enjoy.
Merryn Glover's A House Called Askival. It's about a woman who returns to India after 24 years, to a home she grew up in as a missionary's daughter. It flips between that and the perspective of her missionary dad, and his own childhood, so there's a good spectrum of post-Partition India in there too that is supposedly very accurate (the author lived there herself in similar circumstances). Also, it's very readable - the thought-provokingness kind of takes you by surprise, it's not heavy handed. It's not philosophical on the surface, but it deals with the themes of guilt and family, and how people become the people they become, and viewing people through different perspectives and through time. I can't recommend it highly enough, not enough people know about it. I enjoyed it so much.
Merryn Glover's A House Called Askival.
It's about a woman who returns to India after 24 years, to a home she grew up in as a missionary's daughter. It flips between that and the perspective of her missionary dad, and his own childhood, so there's a good spectrum of post-Partition India in there too that is supposedly very accurate (the author lived there herself in similar circumstances). Also, it's very readable - the thought-provokingness kind of takes you by surprise, it's not heavy handed. It's not philosophical on the surface, but it deals with the themes of guilt and family, and how people become the people they become, and viewing people through different perspectives and through time. I can't recommend it highly enough, not enough people know about it. I enjoyed it so much.
It's currently on Kindle promo and I'm just helping out by spreading the word a bit:
http://www.amazon.com/House-Called-As...