The Unknows Errors of Our Lives


One of my favorite Indian author, beside Jhumpa Lahiri (Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake) is Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. Their writings are almost similar. They convey stories in a delicate and beautiful way. Make me enjoying every sentence.

This book is a short stories collection written by Divakaruni. Consists of 9 short stories. The title of this book is one of the stories. All 9 stories focus on Indian women lives after they migrate to US.

With her typical way of telling stories, Divakaruni presents her beautiful stories that told from the woman character's point of view.
All different kinds of generations leave India and move to U.S., the land of dreams, in order to get free from strict tradition, but later on they feel that they have been uprooted from their nature land and in the end, they are in dillema, either to stay in U.S. or return to their homeland, India.

Already translated in bahasa by Gramedia Pustaka Utama on February 2010.

7 comments:

Ariza April 19, 2010 at 8:00 AM  

mbaa ri,,,yang bahasa indonesia nya judulnya sama kah??

riana April 19, 2010 at 10:15 AM  

@Icha: Judulnya sama, judul bhs ind nya tertera di halaman dalam. Selamat jln2 ke Gramed, you're gonna love this book...:)

ferina April 20, 2010 at 11:39 AM  

favoritku juga nih.. :)

riana April 20, 2010 at 2:06 PM  

@Ferina: Bagus banget ya....^_^

ferina April 21, 2010 at 8:53 AM  

mbak, aku lagi 'tergila2' sama penulis2 india, nih... ada rekomendasi, gak, selain Jhumpa Lahiri atau Vikar Swarup?

riana April 21, 2010 at 9:45 AM  

@ferina: Udah baca "White Tiger" karangan Aravind Adiga? Versi bhs ind udah ada kok di gramed, menarik juga tuh ceritanya....

ferina April 22, 2010 at 7:46 AM  

White Tiger udah baca :)