Anuk Arudpragasam: A Passage North
World Book Club
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A Novel About a Family
Anuk was reading a novel about traveling by train from utrecht to solsberg got stuck on conlonian station and had to wait for three hours after midnight then a guy came up to me and asked what i was reading so i spread the words and recommended the novel. Anuk: I think that many novels or stories from south asia focusing on families tend to foreground tensions rivalries and frustrations in contrast a small family in a passage north with christian his mother and grandmother is described as living and harmonious generally speaking because there were some tensions but they could be resolved. Was wondering if this harmony was a deliberate choice.
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