by Catherine Clément · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782290302057
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«Pour l'amour de l'Inde» is the historical novel by Catherine Clément, published by J'ai lu in paperback (544 pages, in French).
In 1947, Lady Edwina Mountbatten, wife of the viceroy of British India, and Jawaharlal Nehru, recently released and future prime minister, fall in love in the midst of the independence process. The novel interweaves their relationship with the partition of India and the figure of Gandhi, showing a love that endures despite distance and political obligations.
The first edition was published in 1993; this paperback edition from J'ai lu dates from 2001.
For readers of historical fiction and romances with real characters in the context of the decolonisation of India.
Catherine Clément is a French philosopher, novelist, feminist, and literary critic, born to a Jewish mother in Boulogne-Billancourt. She received a degree in philosophy from the École Normale Supérieure, and studied under its faculty Claude Lévi-Strauss and Jacques Lacan, working in the fields of anthropology and psychoanalysis. A member of the school of French feminism and écriture féminine, she has published books with Hélène Cixous and Julia Kristeva. She has also made contributions to musicology; her Opera, or the Undoing of Women (1979) is notable for its emphasis on the representation of women in opera.
