5/27/2023 0 Comments Nostalgia vassanji![]() The novel, instead, is caught up in the mystery of who Sina's patient was in his old life-by all accounts an entertaining narrative, but one that lacks the claws and teeth of history's great dystopian novels. A chilling thought-and yet one that Vassanji backs off from making entirely clear. Vassanji seems uncomfortable writing sex, putting it off as long as possible before delivering a few brief, Harlequin-esque clichés: They made passionate, reckless love. This is a poignant and timely social critique the governments of the novel don't care about lengthening the lives of their citizens unless there is profit in it, and only allows the procedure to become popular because it allows them to rewrite and reroute individuals for their own purposes. Here, perhaps, is the true moral of the story: people cannot live forever, but money does. The only thing they are allowed to carry into their new lives is wealth. Vassanji (Author) 24 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 95. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Vassanji Nostalgia Hardcover Import, 20 September 2016 by M.G. ![]() For all intents and purposes, rejuvenated individuals have died. Nostalgia - Kindle edition by Vassanji, M.G. Their thoughts, loves, dreams, hopes, fears, and plans all disappear forever. The elephant in the room, which Vassanji never truly addresses, is that this "immortality" is not truly immortality at all while their bodies live on, the lives of citizens are completely erased. ![]()
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