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Summary: harrowing and intense
Review: I did a web search for Phoolan Devi after hearing about her on NPR, and then pre-ordered this book before it became available. I have a long line of friends waiting to borrow it now, and I can't stop recommending it. I finished it in a few days, in spite of work, because I could not stop. Harrowing beyond the imagination. I hope it sells enough copies to make the whole world develop some righteous outrage.
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Summary: harrowing and intense
Review: I did a web search for Phoolan Devi after hearing about her on NPR, and then pre-ordered this book before it became available. I have a long line of friends waiting to borrow it now, and I can't stop recommending it. I finished it in a few days, in spite of work, because I could not stop. Harrowing beyond the imagination. I hope it sells enough copies to make the whole world develop some righteous outrage.
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Summary: Couldn't put it down; terrifying, incredible, holy.
Review: Phoolan was a woman who didn't know how to write or read, but she described her life very well, I want to tell you the I started to read the story of Phoolan from a french writer and I couldn't read more than fifty pages, then a friend gave me this book and I didn't want to leave it (for my friend) so I started to read it, and I really couldn't leave it until I finish it.
This is a sad and unfair story but even if we want, we can't take the justice in our hands and kill and mutilate all the man that rape the women.
This is a well written book that keeps you interested in the story all the time and you want to be with Phoolan always. Is a pity that this is a real story, but maybe with this book the life of some women would change, if this happen, the life of Phoolan will be for a very good reason.
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Summary: So much to think about...
Review: This book is amazing. Thank goodness she put her life into her own words before being killed. The part that is so sad/scary is that the violence, hunger and unfairness that Phoolan experienced is not unusual - what is unusual is that she wasn't willing to sit back and let it happen. Truly a modern day female Robin Hood. You will love this book.
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Summary: So much to think about...
Review: This book is amazing. Thank goodness she put her life into her own words before being killed. The part that is so sad/scary is that the violence, hunger and unfairness that Phoolan experienced is not unusual - what is unusual is that she wasn't willing to sit back and let it happen. Truly a modern day female Robin Hood. You will love this book.
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Summary: Extraordinary account of triumph over adversity
Review: This is the amazing tale about Phoolan Devi, the 'Bandit Queen' whose actions stirred a nation and brought scandal to a government. She was born in rural India and given to an arrange marriage at the age of 11. From that age she was raped repeatedly b y her husband, by the police and by members of a higher cast, the Thakurs. By the time she was in her teens she had run away, having brought 'dishonor' to her parents, and joined a group of bandits. The film 'Bandit Queen' portrays these circumstances in brutal detail. This book is her story in her own words, as written by a well known French journalist. This is a fabulous book, rich with detail and clear in its presentation of the life of a poor low caste(not class but caste) women in rural India, whose way of life has not changed for hundreds of years. The event that brought world attention to Phoolan Devi was the massacre of dozens of men in a village. Devi's bandits had rounded up the male villagers and in revenge for an earlier gang rape performed by these men on Devi she ordered them all shot down like the dogs they were. Devi became a crusader, an avenging angel for the rural women of India. In the end she gave herself up and was later elected to Parliament and assassinated. This is her tale, a must read, a brutal account of triumph in extreme circumstances.
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Summary: Extraordinary account of triumph over adversity
Review: This is the amazing tale about Phoolan Devi, the `Bandit Queen' whose actions stirred a nation and brought scandal to a government. She was born in rural India and given to an arrange marriage at the age of 11. From that age she was raped repeatedly b y her husband, by the police and by members of a higher cast, the Thakurs. By the time she was in her teens she had run away, having brought `dishonor' to her parents, and joined a group of bandits. The film `Bandit Queen' portrays these circumstances in brutal detail. This book is her story in her own words, as written by a well known French journalist. This is a fabulous book, rich with detail and clear in its presentation of the life of a poor low caste(not class but caste) women in rural India, whose way of life has not changed for hundreds of years. The event that brought world attention to Phoolan Devi was the massacre of dozens of men in a village. Devi's bandits had rounded up the male villagers and in revenge for an earlier gang rape performed by these men on Devi she ordered them all shot down like the dogs they were. Devi became a crusader, an avenging angel for the rural women of India. In the end she gave herself up and was later elected to Parliament and assassinated. This is her tale, a must read, a brutal account of triumph in extreme circumstances.
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