Jungle

The Awakening
Bok av Kate Chopin
Upton Sinclairs The Jungle is one of the most famous and widely read books in America during the 20th century. In addition to being considered a classic, its description of slaughterhouses helped bring about the establishment of FDA regulations for the way meat is processed and handled.Sinclair hoped his book would spark a social revolution; instead it inspired the Pure Food and Drug Act, and thereby made Americas food supply immeasurably safer. Perhaps you will be surprised to be told that I failed in my purpose....I wished to frighten the country by a picture of what its industrial masters were doing to their victims; entirely by chance I had stumbled on another discovery - what they were doing to the meat-supply of the civilized world. In other words, I aimed at the publics heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
En underbart vacker och poetisk bok om en kvinnas dröm att slå sig fri från samhällets inhängnad. Utspelas under sekelskiftet 18-1900 i de sk franska kvarteren i New Orleans. En kvinnas plats var i hemmet men Edna drömmer om något större, något mer, men det kan komma till ett stort pris.

Jag har läst många böcker men skulle jag välja en favorit så är det denna, tänker på den ofta. Språket och sättet att bära historian framåt är enastående och poetiskt, den kommer att stanna med dig länge. En juvel som många missat.

Nyckelord: Kvinnohistoria, New Orleans, sekelskifte, familj, kärlek, feminism och könsroller.