No matter how hard it is, live with a smile —— Reading Above the Earth

People will cry sooner or later in their lives.

A history of national blood and tears more painful than living, a panoramic view of all walks of life in India. A song of life interwoven with suffering and hope, a literary classic that writes about the good and evil of human nature and the truth of life.

In India from 65438 to 0975, people's livelihood was depressed and the situation was turbulent. The government declared a state of emergency, and dark clouds covered the earth.

The uncles and nephews Ishwar and Omprakash who escaped from the Holocaust were introduced to take the train to find Dina, the tailor, in order to find a job. On the train, they met a young student, Manecke. Coincidentally, Mannick happened to be Dina's new tenant, so the three of them went hand in hand.

The doorbell rang and Dina opened the door. Four people with their own sufferings are about to start a new life in this small room, and their fates are closely linked. ...

"Above the Earth" is a Canadian Indian writer Roxington? Mistry's highly acclaimed novels, with the fate of the four protagonists as the main line, show the changes of the Indian situation in the past decades, and describe the sufferings, joys and sorrows of the little people and their tenacious vitality under the special historical background. After publication, his works were highly praised, and he was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the International Dublin Prize for Literature, and won literary awards such as the Canadian Giles Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Award for Best Book. Since the publication of 1995, there have been more than 90 editions in the world, which have become the classics that are constantly reprinted. In 2006, Tamasha Theatre Company adapted Above the Earth into a stage play, which was staged at hampstead Theatre in London and won favorable comments from all walks of life. The British Daily Telegraph ranks second among the "Top Ten Asian Novels", second only to A Dream of Red Mansions.

The following is the evaluation of this book by the global media-

Few people can capture the real pain and incredible vitality, as well as the twists and turns and beauty of Indian life like mistry.

Time

This novel has the courage to record and redefine who we are. It inherits the tradition of those great novels and praises the human spirit that is full of brilliance and never goes out.

-Globe and Mail

Those who talk endlessly about the decline of novels should go and see the works of Roxington Mistry. He doesn't need to inject magical realism to make reality full of vitality. In his view, reality is magical.

-The New York Times

A masterpiece full of inspiration and compassion. Like all other great novels, it changed our understanding of life.

The guardian

This story shows the elegance and beauty of a butterfly spreading its wings ... great.

-Time magazine

Every word is like the light shining on the sea ..... and it is extraordinary.

-Scottish Weekly Daily

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It took me several days to read nearly 700 pages of books as thick as bricks. It's a beautiful spring outside the window, and all people on the earth are enjoying life and fighting for happiness. I breathed a sigh of relief, as if I had not come out of the tragic fate of the characters in the book. The scene presented in the book is quite different from what I saw and heard before my eyes. You can never imagine that while you are enjoying your life happily, there are still some people on the earth running around for help, living humbly for a full meal and a shelter from the wind and rain.

To tell the truth, reading foreign literature is somewhat contradictory for me. Mainly because long names are hard to remember. Fortunately, the four protagonists in this book, Dina, Weng, Ishwar and Manecke, are not very long. What first aroused my interest in reading was the evaluation of this book by the authoritative global media. This book has such a high evaluation. Is it really so charming?

People often infer other people's lives from their own real experiences. This is often subjective in reading habits. For example, in China of 1975, although people's lives are not completely out of food and clothing, on the whole, most people can live and work in peace and contentment, and there will be no blatant mass slaughter. But in the Indian society at that time, there were serious racial tears and hatred. The protagonist Ishwar and his uncle Weng Prashka (referred to as Xiao Weng) are the survivors who survived the disaster because they studied tailoring at their uncle's house after the low surname family was brutally killed and extinct by the high surname family. In order to flee for their lives, they left their hometown by train and went to the big city, intending to be tailors in the home of a woman named Dina. Manecke, a student I met on the train, is the tenant who wants to rent a house in Dina's house. Manecke was born in a small businessman's family. Because of the contradiction with his parents, he volunteered to study abroad. Because the school accommodation environment is not good, I decided to move out and rent it at my mother's classmate aunt Dina's house.

Dina was born in a good family, and her brother is also an outstanding person. But since childhood, my brother has been beating and scolding my sister. After her parents died, it became worse. Together with her parents, she interfered and controlled Dina's every move. The stubborn Dina doesn't want to be bound by her brother for a long time, and she doesn't want to obey her brother's arrangement in love and marriage. Instead, she freely chose a poor and interesting person who can play the violin. The short life after marriage is sweet and gives Dina an unforgettable aftertaste. Dina's fate once again returned to the original point, because the beloved man unfortunately had a car accident while riding out to buy him a gift. Unwilling to accept her brother's gift, she learned sewing skills from her menstruating husband's home to earn her own living, and soon got rid of the shadow of her husband's death. Kind menstruation gave Dina two old sewing machines at home for free. Dina also contacted stable foreign trade orders for garment processing through her classmates. She is going to recruit two skilled sewing workers, and Xiao Weng and Eva, who are separated by fate, are her ideal candidates.

The initial cooperation between Dina, the employer, and an uncle of the employee was not pleasant, and they were full of suspicion, disgust and distrust. Xiao Weng and Eva even silently followed Dina to the delivery place, intending to go it alone without an employer. But it turns out that these two strangers don't have this ability. I have to work honestly at Dina's sewing machine. After all, Xiao Weng worked carefully in his later years, while the young and active nephew Iva was rough and often made mistakes, so he was always scolded by Dina. Ivan was not convinced to talk back, and Uncle Weng was dissuaded by the drizzle. Xiao Weng has a disabled face. He often said that when a person is sad, there is no place to smile. The arrival of Manecke, a student tenant, soon became close friends with Eva of the same age. The two young people brought a lot of farce and anger to this gloomy sewing room.

The work has been settled, and the residence has been bothering uncles and nephews. At first I lived in my uncle's friend's barber shop, and later I found the porch of a nightclub. But this is also the beginning of their nightmare. On the grounds of rectifying the market, the police, together with beggars, forcibly took them to the car and sold them to the black-hearted boss who worked as a coolie. One of them, shankar, has no legs or knees, and has become their friend through thick and thin. Shankar is the cash cow of the well-connected Beggars' Sect leader, and his ability is enough to take shankar out of here and resume begging. Through shankar's intercession, the two uncles promised to give a third of the sewing income to the beggar leader, only to escape from the wolf's den and return to Dina's sewing room.

They had no place to live anymore, and Dina finally moved into compassion and allowed their uncle and nephew to sleep under the porch. They were surprised to find that cooking with four people is more economical and has a family atmosphere than buying food outside. So they formed a special family. In their busy leisure time, they picked vegetables and cooked together, shared delicious cooking skills and had an unforgettable happy time. But the landlord sent someone to look for you, and two thugs destroyed everything in the house, saying that they would take in tenants and sewing workers and let them move out tomorrow. When the beggar leader appeared to ask an uncle for money, he accidentally became their umbrella, the house was saved, and the trouble was easily settled.

The blind date trip of two uncles' hometown became a lifelong nightmare for them and completely changed their later lives. Two people were inexplicably pulled to be forcibly ligated, and Xiao Weng had to amputate his leg infection, becoming the second shankar. Nephew Eva was not only forcibly ligated, but also cut off her penis for revenge. A beautiful trip full of longing for the villagers turned into a nightmare that was unbearable to look back on. Dina had to move out of the old house she had lived in for decades and begged her brother to give her a place to live. Only Manecke went far away to find a job and lived a decent life.

At the end of the story, Manecke returned to his hometown to attend his father's funeral. On his way home, he stopped by to visit Aunt Dina's rented house, and Aunt Dina gave him warm memories. However, everything has changed. When he saw Dina again at her brother's house, he hardly dared to recognize her. What makes him even more unacceptable is that Dina told him a cruel fact: the young people who were laughing at the beginning and Uncle Eva have become beggars. He said goodbye to Aunt Dina in a hurry and fled to the airport. I happened to meet two uncles begging in a narrow alley. They are preparing to go to Dina's residence and accept the leftovers Dina brought to them behind her brother's back. At this moment, Xiao Weng is sitting on a scooter covered with a broken quilt, Ishwar's fat body is dragging forward with difficulty, and Xiao Weng's weak pleading is even more heartbreaking: Sir, have pity on us and give us some money!

Manecke didn't have the courage to recognize the two beggars who had lived together day and night. He walked past them with mixed feelings. Manecke never dreamed that in fact, two uncles made a decent man who knew a suit and tie before him. It is student Manecke who laughs with them.

Regardless of the region and nationality, no matter when and where, the fate of ordinary people living at the bottom is easy to arouse readers' * * * voices and arouse the deep-seated compassion. The fate of countless individuals is always closely related to the influence of society and the turmoil of the current situation. Dina, Xiao Weng, Eva and Manecke are the true portrayal of the tragic fate of 10 million middle and lower class people in Qian Qian. One by one, they are facing the abandoned children abandoned by fate, surviving tenaciously under the pressure of life and society, and making unremitting struggles with fate. Even though life is bad, they still haven't given up their yearning for a better life. Still in the cruel and cold world, I kept loving and smiling. Life has abused me thousands of times, and I regard life as my first love. This book once again shows me the tenacity and greatness of life, so I have no reason not to love my present life.

Tagore said: The world kissed me with pain and made me sing back. Above the Earth, an excellent masterpiece, inherits the characteristics of all excellent literary works, and shows the real life of the bottom people in India in the 1970s and 1980s in a panoramic way with compassionate feelings and sketching techniques. It is an encyclopedia to understand the secular customs and sufferings of Indian society at that time. Everyone who has read this book is shocked by the tragic fate of the characters in the book, and moved by the author's meticulous expression and unyielding attitude towards those in trouble.

Pay tribute to millions of ordinary people in Qian Qian, punk. On the earth, there will always be sunshine that shines on all beings. I always believe that tomorrow will be better.