The Foundling: And Other Tales of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander

The Foundling: And Other Tales of Prydain



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The Foundling: And Other Tales of Prydain Lloyd Alexander
Language: English
Page: 128
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0805080537, 9780805080537
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. BYR Paperbacks

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Prematurely aging from a mysterious illness, Jaya Nihalani, a former prophet and revolutionary, lies dying in a hospital in India until a strange being, who purports to be from outer space, appears to rescue her and use her as a mediator to initiate first contact with its species. Jaya's struggle to reclaim her life and understand the mindset of a truly alien creature forms the central conflict in this thoughtful and elegantly written story of self-discovery amid the ruins of social and environmental decay. Set in a near-future India, this tale by the author of The Ghost Writer offers an intriguing glimpse into an important culture and belongs in most libraries' sf collections.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

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Williams follows Ghost Sister [BKL My 15 01] with an explanation of the pantheon of Hindu divinities: it is a racial memory. Eons ago, a race of starfarers, whose civilization was so relatively advanced it could well be thought of as godlike, seeded Earth with life, then left it alone. Now they have returned, and at a bad time. There is a resurgence of religious interest everywhere. In India, this interest has turned reactionary, and the old caste system has been restored. One rebel, a feisty untouchable named Jaya Nihalani, fights for her caste, carrying on the tradition of her father. The aliens perceive her to be a "Receiver," a necessary conduit through which they determine whether their enterprise is worth further development, or should be destroyed. Thus Jaya, the prophet of her caste, becomes an unwitting messiah, or, perhaps, a prophet of doom. Williams might seem politically incorrect in India itself, but in the West her satirical commentary on twenty-first-century religious wars is unhappily prescient. John Mort
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