Rescuing Ranu
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (832 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B004ASORUC |
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| Number of Pages | : | 414 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-20 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Nela's transformation from abstract thinker to selfless guardian begins when she and her lover rescue Ranu from a forced marriage, but only when the child unexpectedly fails to thrive does Nela confront her miscalculations about sacrifice, survival, and the mysterious alchemy of love.. She is drawn, instead, into the lives of ten year old Ranu, the cunning motel-keeper who exploits her, and an unscrupulous Uncle who believes that everything is for sale. After a power struggle at her university, math professor Nela Sambashivan returns to her native India to think
Cheryl Snell's other books include a debut novel, Shiva's Arms (The Writer's Lair Books), and the poetry collections Flower Half Blown (Finishing Line Press), Epithalamion (Little Poem Press), Samsara (Pudding House), Prisoner's Dilemma (Lopside Press), Multiverse (GOSS),. In addition, she and her sister, artist Janet Snell, make chapbooks for Scattered Light Library, most recently Warped Passage and Live Through This.
"Beautiful blending of culture, symbol and plot" according to Sheila Deeth. "How can we tell whether a bird is being chased or leading?" asks Nela, trying to analyze the motion she sees in the sky. Author Cheryl Snell leads her readers to view the world through different eyes in this intricate novel, Rescuing Ranu, and her story is a delight to follow.Flying home from India, Nela sits next to a westerner on the plane and muses on math and the importance of seeing someone's eyes. Sitting together in a car, two mathematicians smile, "You iterate and I converge." Mathematician that I am, I'm hooked. But lyrical descriptions of Indian tradition are equally enticing, and pages pass in a fire-fly dance of otherne. Deliciously smart fiction Cheryl Snell has woven a compelling story; a page-turner that is emotionally rich without being predictable.Throughout the book, I found myself trying to imagine being Nela, the main character, and wondered what decisions I would have made given her circumstances. Ultimately, the difficulty I had in imagining myself in her capable shoes gave me great respect for the decisions she made/directions she choseand I am still thinking about them days afterwards. Though Nela is highly intelligent (a scientist) and independent - the kind of person who could quite easily spend life alone - she is not impervious to love's inexplicable ways, wh
What's the cost/benefit ratio of their decisions? A recurring motif in Rescuing Ranu has to do with flocking behavior. Why? The child's deformity serves as a symbol. Would you consider this a purely altruistic act? ·Jackson sacrifices his personal happiness with Nela because the village needs him more than she, and Nela puts her child's needs ahead of her own. how many cousins are worth one brother? The following are questions for discussion:·Ashoke is related to Nela, and yet he betrays her. From the Author The theme underscoring Rescuing Ranu is altruism. Nela's flight from, and return to, the places she regards as home mimic the choreography of a murmuration of birds, and give rise to the questions: ·Is the bird in front (Nela) leading, or being chased? In which instances?·Were you surprised that Nela would take R