Title: Author
The Painted Veil: W. Somerset Maugham
Publisher: Pocket Zeta
Genre: Novel
Starring Kitty Garstin
Plot: Kitty Garstin
is a young snob who sole purpose in life is to make a good wedding. But Kitty has reached age 27 single, and her many suitors are reduced. Her younger sister, less graceful beauty, marry Kitty with a baron and worried that her sister married before she accepts the marriage proposal of Walter Fane, a bacteriologist who is extremely intelligent and predicted a great future. Shortly after she married, moved to Hong Kong where you have a placid existence until he meets on his way Charlie Townsend, handsome, smart and superficial. Kitty him maintain an adventure. But Walter comes home one day earlier than usual and discover the deception of his wife. Walter gives you two choices: go with him to an inland area of \u200b\u200bChina affected by cholera or convince Charlie to divorce his wife and marries her. Following the retirement of Charlie Kitty has no choice to travel with her husband to a destination that will surely offer you death. Here Kitty
understand what life really is, people know that every day provides all you need to help others and become someone else. Rating
Staff:
When I picked this book I thought it was a romance novel but read the first pages I realized my mistake. It is a book about human ambition, frivolity and hypocrisy of the upper classes, the hardship of ordinary people and especially the valuation of human life.
Kitty is the most stupid, vain and shallow that I have read but still has a charm that makes you fall in love. We see a young girl her mother has taught that their main goal is to marry well. Aware of her charms happens every season with the idea rejected suitors who are not their height until her sister agrees with a son and marries Walter desperate.
little can be said of Walter. He is a man besotted with his wife, shy, intelligent and extremely quiet. Al knew whom to marry, a woman brought only superficial good humor, and her pretty face. You could say that is a man without character, but we would be deceiving. Upon learning of the deception of his wife decides to take revenge and do it in the worst possible way. Taking her at death's door.
The secondary characters are wonderful and they all contribute greatly to the novel. Passing by the nuns who teach humility and self sacrifice to Kitty, Charlie is the man echo conceit, Waddington with his charisma and humor brings joy and distracts Kitty in the land affected by cholera.
Although sometimes rather heavy to me the novel is quite good and highly recommendable. I really liked the end though it is bittersweet and very emotional.
Global Note: 6
