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The Mango Season (Paperback)

by Amulya Malladi (Author) "Mix the mango and dry ingredients and add three cups of peanut oil to the mixture ..." (more)

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Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books; Reprint edition (Oct 26 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0345450310
ISBN-13: 978-0345450319
Product Dimensions: 20.5 x 13 x 2 cm
Shipping Weight: 200 g

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (23 customer reviews)

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All the commonplaces of culture clash are on display in this second novel by Malladi (A Breath of Fresh Air), about an Indian woman who hides her engagement to an American man from her traditional Brahmin family. "I had escaped arranged marriage," begins Priya Rao, "by coming to the United States to do a master's in Computer Sciences at Texas A&M, by conveniently finding a job in Silicon Valley, and then by inventing several excuses to not go to India." At 27, having run out of excuses, she returns to her home city of Hyderabad and runs headlong into a dizzying array of parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. Tormenting Priya is a secret: Nick, her American fiance. She is afraid to tell anyone about him, fearing she will be disowned, and even agrees to meet an Indian man her parents would like her to marry. Malladi succeeds in giving a vivid sensory impression of the south of India, its foods and climate and customs, but Priya's family falls neatly into stock types: the overbearing mother who wants Priya to marry within her caste; the hip younger brother who represents the next, Westernized generation of Indians; the catty aunt who constantly criticizes her niece. Awkward prose ("lethargy swirling around her like an irritating mosquito") is a distraction, and melodrama takes the place of nuanced plotting-a final twist is particularly egregious.
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Adult/High School-Teens will identify with the family dynamics portrayed here, but those from foreign cultures will be most affected by this story of love and family. When she returns to India after seven years, Priya Rao, 27, faces the harsh reality of prejudice and culture clash. Besides religion, caste, and financial status, there is the matter of skin color. Lighter is better, and Priya is considered "dark." Hyderabad seems hotter and dirtier, and her family as intractable as ever, but mango season, the frenetic preparation of pickles and other delicacies from the fruit that ripens in southern India's midsummer, is her favorite time. Ma, a "super nag," quickly makes clear that it is time for her daughter to marry a "nice Indian boy," best of all, a Teluga Brahmin from a family they have chosen, though Priya has veto power once the two have met. How can she tell them that she is engaged to her American lover? She has returned for that purpose, and to reconnect with home and family. [...]
Molly Connally, Chantilly Regional Library, VA
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Something was definitely missing, Dec 12 2003

By	Brandi N. Copher "bcopher" (Mt. Vernon, NY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Mango Season (Hardcover)

This book was an easy read, the characters were easy to follow and identify but I just felt cheated after reading this book.
I hate to compare books of similar themes; however, For Matrimonial Purposes by Kavita Daswani was a much better book.
Mango Season seemed so repetitive. I often found myself wondering why Ms. Malladi mentioned Nick, the great american boyfriend, page after page without really giving him life. At one point I was ready to throw the book after she mentioned yet again how great he was. Enough already! We know he's great, tell us something else.
The recipes were a lovely Like Water for Chocolate touch. If you can't find the ingredients in your local market, try the internet.
I felt cheated after reading this book. Something mentioned at the bottom of page 224 really ticked me off.
I wouldn't recommend this book unless you are looking for a frivolous, quick read that is at times quite boring and redundant.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Modern India, Jan 20 2004

By	Roger L. Lee (Las Palmas de Grand Canary Island, Gran Canaria Spain) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Mango Season (Hardcover)

THE MANGO SEASON by Amulya Malladi
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This book takes place in modern India. It's the story of a young woman, Priya Rao, who returned to India for a visit with her family after getting her Master Degree in the USA. It's the story of her family and she, a young woman with the still love of her family and not wanting to fight or hurt them. Actually she was afraid of her family. She knew what affect in would have on her relations with them to tell them that she had a boy friend in the USA who was not an Indian.

So Priya did not tell them right away. Her family immediately started trying to find her an Indian man for a husband. They did not know about her life in the USA. Priya of course did not want an India husband having a live in boy friend in the USA who she loved and initiated to marry. But, she could not work up the courage to tell her father and mother about the USA situation. She was young and had never disobeyed her father. What would she do?

With the differences in the society and religion between her family in India and her boyfriend in the USA things got very difficult very fast for her. She felt the obligation to obey her father and her mother like she had been raised, but could not do it under the circumstances. All of the family was close, her grandfather and all of her sisters, brothers and in-laws were trying to find her a husband?

Like a lot of countries not long ago, Indians were accustomed to having the husband picked by the bride's family, although in India the bride got a chance to talk to the lucky man and choose him as a husband before they had the marriage ceremony. Priya was lucky; she had a brother who was modern thinker, although he did not get along with the family. That gave her some one she could talk to.

In the end she had to tell her mother and father the truth and let the cards fall where they would. This is a good first book and I'd advise any one who wants to know how the modern Indian family who lives in India is adjusting to the 21 century.

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5.0 out of 5 stars I loved it!, Jan 19 2004

By	S Jeswal (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Mango Season (Hardcover)

I usually don't like to respond to other reviewers as I believe that everyone should have their own opinion but I just have to this time. I liked this book very much, and even if I didn't, I still wouldn't have thought it was worse than "For Matrimonial Purposes," which was terrible, terrible, terrible. The writing in that book was poor and...not very good.

"The Mango Season" is a very tasty novel about a young woman who has to choose between what she wants and what her family wants her to do. Amulya Malladi is a a fabulous writer and I enjoyed this book so much that I went and bought her first book. I haven't read it yet but I'm sure it's wonderful too. One more thing, why is the reviwer (bcopher) upset about what was said in page 224? I don't understand why anyone should be annoyed or irritated to find out the skin color of Priya's fiance. I thought it was a great twist and a perfect way to show our (the reader's) feelings about skin color and race. We should all be as color blind as Priya!

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3.0 out of 5 stars Good read...but
I confess that I really didn't know anything about Indian
culture prior to reading this book. The only thing that really attracted me to this read is that is had an... Read more

Published on Jan 23 2004 by Souljournal

5.0 out of 5 stars great cultural insight
As a Pakistani-American in a 3 year relationship with my own forbidden American boyfriend, I can totally relate to this beautifully written story. Read more

Published on Nov 23 2003 by megamia

5.0 out of 5 stars Mothers & Daughters!
If you don't get along with your mother or even if you do, this is a great book to read. I loved reading about the dynamics between Priya and her mother. Read more

Published on Oct 23 2003

5.0 out of 5 stars A delightful read
What a delight to read Amulya Mulladi's "Mango Season." As with her previous, "Breath of Fresh Air," Mulladi's prose is stimulating, and her ability to show us... Read more

Published on Oct 12 2003