Debby DiMartino, saved from death in infancy by Indian nuns, and adopted by loving American parents in Schenectady, New York, can't figure out if she is someone special or just a special kind of misfit. Her quest to track down her biological parents takes her deep into the counterculture of San Francisco and the legacy of Viet Nam, where she becomes "Devi Dee," a woman who begins to discover a past and present that defines her own role in an ultimately shocking, yet compelling universe. A cocky, breakneck-pace read, Leave It to Me is Bharati Mukherjee at her provocative best.
"There is much to puzzle over, and also much to admire, in Mukherjee's in-your-face, zeitgeist-funny, and always disturbing novel." The Globe and Mail
"Šan astute, ironic and merciless insight into an aberrant version of the American dream." Publishers Weekly (Starred review)
"Pain and sorrow, hurt and humiliation, rage and violence Bharati Mukherjee deftly mixes these elements into a disturbing, explosive tale of 1990s AmericaŠ" The Ottawa Citizen
Bharati Mukherjee is the author of six previous novels, including Jasmine and The Middle man and Other Stories (which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1989), and two books of nonfiction, written with her husband, Clark Blaise. Born in Calcutta, she came to the US in 1961 to complete her Master of Fine Arts and Ph.D. She is a professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley.
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Debby's search for her birth parents takes her to San Francisco, where she lifts a new name off a vanity license plate and begins a new life as Devi Dee. Along with her old identity, Debby/Devi sheds her old conventions, becoming a "Tenderloin prowler, all allure and strength and zero innocence" as she lives out of her car in Haight Ashbury, befriends the crazy, the strung-out, and the paranoid who populate its streets, and begins her hunt for the woman who gave her life--a search that will lead Devi into an apocalyptic confrontation with a most unexpected demon. In Leave It to Me Bharati Mukherjee has created a hip, violent, and darkly funny look at what it means to be an American at the end of the 20th century.
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Book Description 8°, Taschenbuch. Condition: Sehr gut. 2. Auflage. 239 (1) Seiten das Buch ungelesen und wie neu, auf dem Titel von der Autorin signiert. Bharati Mukherjee ( 27. Juli 1940 - + 2017) war eine indisch-US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin. Im heutigen San Francisco ist Leave it to me eine erschreckende Untersuchung der persönlichen und nationalen Schuld und Verantwortung. Debby Di Martino, ein adoptiertes Kind, ist das fast vergessene Vermächtnis einer unachtsamen, gefährlichen Vergangenheit. Ihre leibliche Mutter war ein kalifornisches Blumenkind, das den Hippiepfad nach Asien nahm. Ihr Vater war ein charismatischer Psychopath, Sohn einer Vietnamprostituierten. "Wenn Sie nichts erben, haben Sie Anspruch auf alles", sagt Debby und verlässt das Haus im Bundesstaat New York, um ihre Mutter zu verfolgen und sich am Leben zu rächen. Als sie sich in San Francisco als Devi Dee neu erfindet, umarmt sie die lokale Subkultur und entdeckt, dass sie mehr als sie sich vorgestellt hat geerbt hat - ihren Instinkt für Täuschung, Selbsterhaltung und ein Erbe schockierender Impulse. Als Debby kommt Devi auf die Frau zu sprechen, die ihre leibliche Mutter sein könnte, Kulturen stoßen aufeinander und sie hinterlässt die Spur von blutigem Chaos in ihrem Kielwasser. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 650. Seller Inventory # 26166