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Across the Black Waters — Wikipedia (en)

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Across the Black Waters is an English novel by the Indian writer Mulk Raj Anand first published in 1939. It describes the experience of Lalu, a sepoy in the Indian Army fighting on behalf of Britain against the Germans in France during World War I. He is portrayed by the author as an innocent peasant whose poor family was evicted from their land and who only vaguely understands what the war is about. The book has been described as Anand's best work since the Untouchable. In the words of Basavaraj Naikar, "In Lalu's tragedy lied the tragedy of the Indian village and Anand dramatizes a poignant truth: to disposses any one of land is to deny him an identity." The book is part of a trilogy (along with The Village and The Sword and the Sickle) that chronicles the life of Lalu as he struggles to rise from the bottom of Indian society. In the background is India's fight for independence. This book is the only Indian English novel that is set in World War I and portrays the experiences of Lalu, who only wants to reclaim the piece of land his family lost as a reward for serving. But when he returns from war, he finds his family destroyed and his parents dead. The novel's larger themes are that of atrocities of war and Lalu's encounter of the Western culture.

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Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Across the Black Waters» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Across_the_Black_Waters
Wikidata Q4676469: «1939 novel by Mulk Raj Anand» (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4676469
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