La Ciudad de la Alegría | The City of Joy by Dominique Lapierre
Dominique Lapierre es un autor francés, apasionado de la India; sus tradiciones, estilo de vida y tragedias.
En este libro describe a la perfección el estilo de vida de los diferentes grupos sociales en Calcuta después de la Independencia de los ingleses. La mayor parte del libro se desarrolla en el slum, como se le llama a los barrios más pobres y bajos de Calcuta, donde el padre francés Paul Lambert, descubre la miseria con la que viven en ese lugar, especialmente los leprosos.
El padre se enfrenta a todo tipo de vicisitudes, desde dormir con las ratas que se colaban en su cuarto hasta que este mismo se le inundara. Sin embargo, conoce el amor y las diferentes maneras de recibirlo y darlo. Se logra integrar a la comunidad incluso con aquellos que no simpatizan con su religión. A la par Hasari Pal, huye de su pueblo porque la agricultura ya no le da para comer y alimentar a su familia, así que decide emigrar a Calcuta con toda la familia para conseguir una mejor calidad de vida. Sin embargo, no sabía a lo que se enfrentaría y la cadena de explotación a la que se tendría que unir para dar sustento a su familia, incluso si esto pone en riesgo su vida.
En todo el libro se van integrando diversos personajes, se habla de la abundancia que hay en las altas esferas del gobierno y la miseria que ataca a la mayor parte de la población; pero sobre todo habla del AMOR en todas sus formas.
Lo recomiendo a aquellos a los que les interesen las causa sociales, así como quien crea que el amor puede estar presente en todos los lugares del mundo, sin importar la abundancia o la miseria. Best seller que 7 años después de su publicación se convirtió en película.
Dominique Lapierre is a French writer, and India's passionate; as well as a passionate of its traditions, lifestyle, and tragedies.
This book describes well the lifestyle of different social groups living in Calcuta after India's independence. Most of the book takes place in the slum, word used to name the poorest neighborhoods in Calcuta, where the French priest Paul Lambert, discovers the misery in which its inhabitants live, specially the lepers.
The priest has to overcome all kind of vicissitudes; from sleeping along with rats who searched for refuge in his room, until the flood of the same. Nevertheless, he knows love and the different ways to give and receive it. He manages to become part of the community even though with those that weren't that much into Catholicism. At the same time Hasari Pal, has to leave his hometown because agriculture was not giving enough resources to sustain his family, so, he decides to emigrate to Calcuta with the belief, that there he and his family will have a chance to have a better life. However, he didn't know what was waiting for people like him in Calcuta and that he will become part of one of the worst exploitation systems to provide his family, even though if that puts in risk his health.
Through the story, new people come into the light, it talks about wealth in the government and misery that attacks a huge amount of population, but above all, it talks about LOVE in all of its ways.
I recommend this book to all the readers that are interested in social causes, as well as those who believe that love can come in different ways and be present in every corner around the world, no matter how wealthy or miserable you are. It became a Best Seller and 7 years after its publication it was turned into a movie.
En este libro describe a la perfección el estilo de vida de los diferentes grupos sociales en Calcuta después de la Independencia de los ingleses. La mayor parte del libro se desarrolla en el slum, como se le llama a los barrios más pobres y bajos de Calcuta, donde el padre francés Paul Lambert, descubre la miseria con la que viven en ese lugar, especialmente los leprosos.
El padre se enfrenta a todo tipo de vicisitudes, desde dormir con las ratas que se colaban en su cuarto hasta que este mismo se le inundara. Sin embargo, conoce el amor y las diferentes maneras de recibirlo y darlo. Se logra integrar a la comunidad incluso con aquellos que no simpatizan con su religión. A la par Hasari Pal, huye de su pueblo porque la agricultura ya no le da para comer y alimentar a su familia, así que decide emigrar a Calcuta con toda la familia para conseguir una mejor calidad de vida. Sin embargo, no sabía a lo que se enfrentaría y la cadena de explotación a la que se tendría que unir para dar sustento a su familia, incluso si esto pone en riesgo su vida.
En todo el libro se van integrando diversos personajes, se habla de la abundancia que hay en las altas esferas del gobierno y la miseria que ataca a la mayor parte de la población; pero sobre todo habla del AMOR en todas sus formas.
Lo recomiendo a aquellos a los que les interesen las causa sociales, así como quien crea que el amor puede estar presente en todos los lugares del mundo, sin importar la abundancia o la miseria. Best seller que 7 años después de su publicación se convirtió en película.
Dominique Lapierre is a French writer, and India's passionate; as well as a passionate of its traditions, lifestyle, and tragedies.
This book describes well the lifestyle of different social groups living in Calcuta after India's independence. Most of the book takes place in the slum, word used to name the poorest neighborhoods in Calcuta, where the French priest Paul Lambert, discovers the misery in which its inhabitants live, specially the lepers.
The priest has to overcome all kind of vicissitudes; from sleeping along with rats who searched for refuge in his room, until the flood of the same. Nevertheless, he knows love and the different ways to give and receive it. He manages to become part of the community even though with those that weren't that much into Catholicism. At the same time Hasari Pal, has to leave his hometown because agriculture was not giving enough resources to sustain his family, so, he decides to emigrate to Calcuta with the belief, that there he and his family will have a chance to have a better life. However, he didn't know what was waiting for people like him in Calcuta and that he will become part of one of the worst exploitation systems to provide his family, even though if that puts in risk his health.
Through the story, new people come into the light, it talks about wealth in the government and misery that attacks a huge amount of population, but above all, it talks about LOVE in all of its ways.
I recommend this book to all the readers that are interested in social causes, as well as those who believe that love can come in different ways and be present in every corner around the world, no matter how wealthy or miserable you are. It became a Best Seller and 7 years after its publication it was turned into a movie.
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