The Mistress of Bhatia House (A Perveen Mistry Novel)
1922年のボンベイで、女性弁護士ペルヴィーンが、虐げられた若い女性の弁護に踏み出す第4巻。植民地支配下の社会制度、女性の権利、家族の緊張が、事件の推進力になっている。
作品情報
女性弁護士ペルヴィーンが、正義を求める依頼人のために立ち上がる。
ペルヴィーン・ミストリーは、女性病院のための資金集めの席で起きた事故をきっかけに、若い使用人の身に起きた事件へと踏み込む。正義を求める仕事は、家族の問題や自分自身の生活の揺らぎまで呼び込んでしまう。
レビュー要約
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社会問題を扱いながらも、人物関係の厚みと時代の空気感がしっかりあるという評価が多い。事件の謎よりも、ペルヴィーンが置かれる立場の難しさに魅力を感じる読者が目立つ。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Soho Crime
- 発売日
- 2023-07-11
- ページ数
- 432ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 14.86 x 3.61 x 21.67 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781641293297
- ISBN-10
- 1641293292
- 価格
- 5933 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Mystery & Thrillers/Mystery/British Detectives
Bombay’s only female solicitor, Perveen Mistry, grapples with class divisions, sexism, and complex family dynamics as she seeks justice for a mistreated young woman in this thrilling fourth installment in Sujata Massey’s award-winning series. India, 1922: Perveen Mistry is the only female lawyer in Bombay, a city where child mortality is high, birth control is unavailable and very few women have ever seen a doctor. Perveen is attending a lavish fundraiser for a new women’s hospital specializing in maternal health issues when she witnesses an accident. The grandson of an influential Gujarati businessman catches fire—but a servant, his young ayah, Sunanda, rushes to save him, selflessly putting herself in harm’s way. Later, Perveen learns that Sunanda, who’s still ailing from her burns, has been arrested on trumped-up charges made by a man who doesn’t seem to exist. Perveen cannot stand by while Sunanda languishes in jail with no hope of justice. She takes Sunanda as a client, even inviting her to live at the Mistry home in Bombay’s Dadar Parsi colony. But the joint family household is already full of tension. Perveen’s father worries about their law firm taking so much personal responsibility for a client, and her brother and sister-in-law are struggling to cope with their new baby. Perveen herself is going through personal turmoil as she navigates a taboo relationship with a handsome former civil service officer. When the hospital’s chief donor dies suddenly, Miriam Penkar, a Jewish-Indian obstetrician, and Sunanda become suspects. Perveen’s original case spirals into a complex investigation taking her into the Gujarati strongholds of Kalbadevi and Ghatkopar, and up the coast to Juhu Beach, where a decadent nawab lives with his Australian trophy wife. Then a second fire erupts, and Perveen realizes how much is at stake. Has someone powerful framed Sunanda to cover up another crime? Will Perveen be able to prove Sunanda’s innocence without endangering her own family?
Sujata Massey was born in England to parents from India and Germany, grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota, and lives in Baltimore, Maryland. She was a features reporter for the Baltimore Evening Sun before becoming a full-time novelist. The first Perveen Mistry novel, The Widows of Malabar Hill, was an international bestseller and won the Agatha, Macavity, and Mary Higgins Clark Awards. Visit her website at sujatamassey.com.
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I love these books and would love to read many more. Linda Passaro, not Tom, who is my husband and gets my books on kindle. I hate it when I finish a good book, which I just have so I’m going to read no.3 in the series again. Thank you
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It is a very entertaining read that helps get to know and understand India a little bit better. Enjoyable series with a touch of excitement.
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Wonderful packaging, came early, in mint condition!
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Ho letto tutti i romanzi sui casi dell'avvocatessa Perveen mistry, questo è forse il migliore della serie. Il plot è intrigante e l'ambientazione nella Bombay degli anni venti è curatissima e convincente. Nicoletta
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Having just finished The Mistress of Bhatia House, I want to share my enthusiasm immediately. I have read the first three Perveen Mistry books (which I recommend all readers do) and awaited this one anxiously. It's wonderful! Massey has conveyed in an interesting and persuasive manner the injustices women in India in that period faced -- women from the solicitor Mistry to the servant Sunanda. Massy cleverly imparts those views via a cleverly plotted story that keeps the reader glued to the page. I'm not sure why the book is called The Mistress of Bhatia House, a strange title since Uma, a fairly minor character, is that mistress. This was a very enjoyable book to read and to listen to on Audible. It's fun, clever, interesting, delightful.
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