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The Holder of the World
The Holder of the World
Author: BHARATI MUKHERJEE
"An amazing literary feat and a masterpiece of storytelling. Once again, Bharati Mukherjee prove — she is one of our foremost writers, with the literary muscles to weave both the future and the past into a tale that is singularly intelligent and provocative." — --AMY TAN — This is the remarkable story of Hannah Easton, a unique woman born in the Am...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780002238991
ISBN-10: 0002238993
Publication Date: 1993
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Publisher: HarperCollins Canada / H & C Hb Def
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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This book is amazing. It takes a lot of suspension of reality to get through because the first part assumes that time-travel is scientifically possible. However, that doesn't last long and if you can get through it (I'm not a big sci-fi person, so it was hard for me) the actual historical part is amazing. It not only focuses greatly on the role of women in the colonial time period, but it also focuses on the hypocrisy on colonization and the power that women still had despite their disadvantage of sex. Also interesting is the fear that the white colonizers had of their whitge women being lured away by the "black" native and tainting her.


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