Blue Bay Palace
By: Nathacha Appanah ; translated by Alexandra Stanton
Contributors: Stanton, Alexandra
Publisher: Aflame Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Wiltshire [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 107
ISBN-13: 9781906300074
Subjects: Indischer Einwanderer; Man-woman relationships; Kulturkonflikt; Arranged marriage; Social classes; Weibliche Heranwachsende; Liebesbeziehung; Fiction
Work titles: Blue Bay Palace
Description: Exposing the extremes of life in a developing country, this novel of doomed love shows how poverty, class divisions, and ramshackle housing become even harder to bear when luxurious resorts and rich tourists arrive on the scene. Growing up on the island of Mauritius, in the Indian Ocean, lonely young Maya hopes that someday she might escape her poverty and find happiness in the desirable housing developments near the new hotels. When she falls in love with a man from a well-to-do family, she believes that her dream is within reach, but her hopes are shattered when her lover is too weak to defy his family and agrees to an arranged marriage to a woman from his own caste.
Notes: Translated from the French.