TANIA TANYA: A NOVEL

Book ID/图书代码： 02000016B89669

English Summary/英文概要： Tanya Tania is a story about two young women coming of age in two countries that are coming of age. Tanya Talati in Karachi and Tania Ghosh in Bombay, daughters of college best friends, write to each other of what cannot be said to anyone else: a mother who has gone from quiet to silent, sex that has become a weapon, a servant with unforgettably soft hands and a country beginning to play with religion. When Tanya’s brother receives a kidnapping threat, she sets in motion what no one could have predicted, least of all Tania, who finds herself alone in a forbidden bazaar in Bombay, listening to the sounds of a riot torn city coming closer and closer and closer….. Written in letters that span six years, Tanya Tania is a story of what it means to be between childhood and adulthood at a time when two countries are struggling with what it means to be Indian and Pakistani, rich and poor, confident and lonely. A story of love between girls, between families and between countries, Tanya Tania, is, at its heart, a love story about what it means to be human.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《坦娅塔尼亚》是一个关于两个在两个国家的年轻妇女快到法定年龄时的故事。在卡拉奇的坦娅•塔拉提和在孟买的塔尼亚•勾诗，大学最好朋友的女儿们，互相通信写不能和别人说的内容：母亲已经从安静变到无声，性已经成为一种武器，一个有着令人无法忘怀的柔软的手的仆人和一个国家开始搞宗教。当坦娅的哥哥遭到绑架的威胁，她陷入了没有人能预料到的情绪中，至少塔尼亚，发现自己独自身处在孟买一个被禁的集市里，听到暴乱蹂躏城市的声音越来越接近.....作品的时间横跨六年，《坦娅塔尼亚》讲了童年和成年之间意味着什么，两个国家都在挣扎，印度和巴基斯坦意味着什么，富人和穷人，自信和孤独之间意味着什么。一个关于两个女孩儿之间的爱，家庭之间和国家之间，坦娅塔尼亚，是，从心底里，一个关于什么是人类的爱情故事。（YYW）

Awards/获奖情况：A warm and funny love letter written across borders - India and Pakistan need letters like these now more than ever. -- Fatima Bhutto Antara Ganguli uses a difficult literary device - letters between two Indian Pakistani protagonists - to create a narrative that immediately draws you into their intimate worlds, which are as intertwined as they are separate. Tracing their lives through a jaunty exchange of missives chronicling highs, lows, disappointments and hurts, building up gradually to disturbing events on both sides of the border, the reader gets drawn into the complex world of a friendship that refuses to recognise ugly politics but steadfastly focuses on empathy and affection. -- Shobhaa De In Tanya Tania, Antara Ganguli effortlessly pulls off a terrific feat: she makes the redoubtable old form of the epistolary novel feel fresh and vibrant and profoundly affecting. This story of two teenaged girls grows deeper and more troubling as you read it, so that, by the end, you will be holding your breath and reading swiftly to see what happens. -- Lauren Grof Tania Ghosh, on the threshold of a confused, unsupervised adulthood in Bombay, is in an abusive relationship with her lover. Tania Talati, her counterpart in Karachi, is hounded by political thugs’ threats to kidnap her brother. The girls’ stories are revealed in a candid and perceptive exchange of letters and bear witness to a cataclysmic end. Ganguli is a passionate and compelling writer. -- Bapsi Sidhwa --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author/作者介绍： 安塔拉刚格力在国际发展领域工作，为印度和国际出版物上关于性和教育政策的内容有着频繁的贡献。她被选为一个亚洲青年会的2014年度印度和巴基斯坦青年领袖。她的第一部小说《喇叭》于2001年发表。她生活在纽约。

Antara Ganguly works in international development and is a frequent contributor to Indian and international publications on gender and education policy. She was selected to be an Asia Society Young Leader for India and Pakistani in 2014. Her first novel, The Buggles, was published in 2001. She lives in New York.

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