What You Call Winter: Stories, by Nalini Jones
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Composed of interconnected stories that move within and around a small Catholic community in India, this debut collection heralds the arrival of a graceful, sparkling new voice.Nine-year-old Marian Almeida covets the green dress her parents have set aside for her birthday, but when her desire gets the best of her, dangerous events ensue. Roddy D'Souza sees his long-dead father bicycling down the street, and wonders if his own life is nearing its close. Essie, having sent her son to boarding school, weighs his unhappiness against the opportunities his education will provide. With empathy and poise, Nalini Jones creates in What You Call Winter a spellbinding work of families in an uncertain world.From the Trade Paperback edition.
What You Call Winter: Stories, by Nalini Jones- Amazon Sales Rank: #1437590 in eBooks
- Published on: 2009-05-09
- Released on: 2009-05-14
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From Publishers Weekly In her auspicious debut, Jones reveals the hopes and disappointments of young children, mothers and old men living in Santa Clara, a mostly Catholic suburb of Mumbai, India. It covers all the ground between six-year-old Jude Almeida, who in the story The Crow and the Monkeywitnesses his godmother's wild antics at the New Year party, and 77-year old Roddy D'Souza, who in the title story is haunted by visions of his dead father. The opening story, In the Garden, is a gem: at home alone on the verge of her 10th birthday, Marian Almeida discovers and tries on the dress that is intended to be her gift. Simply plotted, the story evokes the weight of expectations of a girl about to enter adolescence. Similar themes are fleshed out in This Is Your Home Also and the devastating We Think of You Every Day, both of which also explore childhood vulnerabilities. Adulthood, however, offers a wider perspective; in The Bold and the Beautiful and Home for a Short Time, characters reconcile themselves with their decisions—one leaves her mother behind for a new life in the United States, while another stays in India. Jones displays impressive scope and depth of sympathy in her first collection. (Aug.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From Booklist In these interconnected stories, Jones transports readers to a Catholic town in India and presents an especially accomplished debut that brings to mind first collections by Chitra Divakaruni, Nell Freudenberger, and Julie Orringer. Encapsulated here are poignant, revelatory moments, setting off aftershocks that are seen in subsequent tales. In one, a young girl fakes poor eyesight in order to get glasses like an envied girl at school, straining her family's finances. In another, a retired university professor is haunted by an apparition that resembles his stern, long-dead father. But like any high-quality fiction, describing plot does nothing to convey the deft authority of the prose. Depicting mothers young and old, servants, dutiful daughters, bachelors, siblings, and unhappy schoolboys, Jones is concerned with families, both nuclear and extended, and moments that bring often painful but necessary clarity to life. Evenly paced, masterfully rendered, this collection dives to the very core of family life and brings India, with its papaya trees, cricket matches, rich flavors, and lush landscapes, to magnificent life. Cook, Emily
Review “Elegant [and] stylish. . . . Captivating. . . . When you turn that last page, you'll be left wanting more.” —San Francisco Chronicle“Like Chekhov-and this young writer is good enough to merit the comparison-Jones has faith in details. . . . We always sense the organizing intelligence and compassion of an author who invites us to understand rather than to judge.” —The Washington Post Book World“What You Call Winter is a momentous debut, a bewitching exploration of what it means to belong, anywhere.” —Elle“Luminous. . . . Polished . . . [What You Call Winter] shines light on [the world of Indians].” —Entertainment WeeklyFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Remarkable debut By Sandra Montana Nalina Jones' intertwined stories are, first of all, about something interesting: the lives of an extended family in an Indian town where Catholicism is the dominant religion. Secondly, she "connects" stories in beautifully natural, organic ways, rather than simply trying to make a collection collect. Thirdly, her stories trace the ways that small actions and traits of character affect family members, and shape children. Indeed, her treatment of children is superlative: she respects their seriousness even as they make childish mistakes, and they bear serious consequences. I smiled often as I read these stories, because the portraits are tender and quixotic, but I also often caught my breath when I recognized where a story was going.Writers could learn a lot just by studying Jones' epert use of scenes. She is so skilled at manipulating point of view, psychic distance, and pace, you don't notice how often she is tweaking the "rules" of contemporary fiction (especially the idea that you can't switch POV, which she does beautifully). Above all, these are stories of character, of flawed, loving, intelligent people navigating changes in their society and even movements to the U.S. Readers who like Indian literature will love this book, but so will people who just plain love good stories about sympathetic characters caught up in their own "small" lives.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. An Intelligent and Satisfying Read By SAnnH This superbly written collection of connected stories introduces the reader to a small Catholic town in India--and the richly constructed individuals who populate it. You'll find stunning prose and a keen understanding of the human spirit permeates the stories throughout this collection, all in the tiniest of expertly crafted details and renderings of daily life handled with an amazing level of insight. A wonderfully intelligent and satisfying read.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Jones does a Jhumpa Lahiri for Bombay catholics By Anand S. Pai Like Lahiri did with displaced Bengali families, Jones does with Catholics in Santa Clara (read Santa Cruz) in bombay. Through many tiny but deep and loosely interconnected stories, Jones draws the lives of a people for many generations. How she has achieved the kind of insight into the tiniest of details i do not know, but i was struck by the nuances that only a person with keen observation would notice. A fascinating read for anyone, particularly Indians abroad.
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