Dusha Lakhora

Roman Chitry Banerdzhi Divakaruni amerikanki indiyskogo proishozhdeniya posvyaschen sudbe posledney pravitelnicy nekogda moguschestvennogo Pendzhaba gosudarstva sikhov sohranivshego nezavisimost v razdiraemom kolonialnymi vlastyami Indostane Yunoy Dzhindan obitayuschey s semey v Vethom domishke v pendzhabskoy provincii bolshe vsego hochetsya naestsya dosyta: ee otec Manna sluzhit dressirovschikom sobak pri korolevskom dvore no dengami rodnyu ne baluet Zato u Manny est plan kak vygodno pristroit syna i doch… I kogda 16letnyuyu Dzhindan uzhe gotovyat k svadbe so starym tolstym no schedrym torgovcem sudba devushki neozhidanno menyaetsya: ee zamechaet sam Randzhit Singh maharadzha Pendzhaba Uvy skazka polnaya lyubvi i schastya prodlitsya nedolgo i posle smerti muzha Dzhindan PRridetsya sobrat vse sily chtoby ne sdatsya pered licom podlosti i predatelstva Brosiv vyzov tradiciyam ona otkinet vdove pokryvalo vdohnovlyaya poddannyh na zaschitu rodnogo Pendzhaba Anglichane opasayas bunta otnimut u myatezhnoy maharani vse chto ona imeet no eto ne slomit ee neukrotimuyu volyu V etom yarkom romane osnovannom na istoricheskih sobytiyah avtor znamenitoy Princessy speciy Chitra Banerdzhi Divakaruni predstavlyaet nezabyvaemuyu istoriyu Dzhindan Kaur kotoraya iz docheri psarya prevratilas v moguschestvennuyu monarhinyu poslednyuyu pravyaschuyu korolevu Pendzhaba Dusha Lahora stala luchshey hudozhestvennoy knigoy 2022 goda po versii Mezhdunarodnoy associacii rabotayuschih zhenschin i poluchila mnozhestvo drugih prizov Eta krasivaya hot i tragicheskaya istoriya ponravitsya tem kto ustal ot seryh budney i gotov pogruzitsya w burnuyu istoriyu Indostana XIX veka gde siyaet velikiy genialny Kohinur i vitayut pryanye aromatyczny vostochnyh speciy