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Heart of Gold
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It is difficult to say what Heart of Gold actually is about. But I'll try.
Firstly, it is a story about Kitrini and Nolan. Kitrini Candachi is an indigo woman, part of a highly matriarchal society. She would have been heir to her grandmother's estates but for her paternity. Her father was a very forward-thinking man and an anthropologist. She had lived with her father on Gold Mountain, the patriarchal centre of gulden power. She has now moved to the City, having been turned out of Gold Mountain as her lover was jailed for terrorism.
Nolan Adelpho is an indigo man. A brilliant bioscientist, he works hard to keep his job at the Centre (in the City) to find cures to gulden diseases. He is being awaited to take his proper place beside his fiancée in the country as befitting an indigo man.
Secondly, more importantly and pervasively, it is about a rift between the two major races: indigo and gulden. Clearly, their ways of life are markedly different purely based on gender roles. However, outside of that, there is so little that sets them apart, right down to their mistrust in and quest for dominance against the other race.
Thirdly, all the simmering contrasts and similarities between the races unfold through the characters and their jarring views and come to a head marked by love, betrayal, politics, genocide and an inevitable shattering of prejudices and perceptions.
Finally, through this story, I learned how my world had shaped my views. Despite being a feminist, I had my imagination stretched as I tried to comprehend the world Shinn created with such care and attention to detail. There were some events that were destined to happen, but others caught me completely by surprise. The drama and suspense, if the richness of the cultures and people was not enough, had me gripped to the end.
4-4.5 stars.
by
It is difficult to say what Heart of Gold actually is about. But I'll try.
Firstly, it is a story about Kitrini and Nolan. Kitrini Candachi is an indigo woman, part of a highly matriarchal society. She would have been heir to her grandmother's estates but for her paternity. Her father was a very forward-thinking man and an anthropologist. She had lived with her father on Gold Mountain, the patriarchal centre of gulden power. She has now moved to the City, having been turned out of Gold Mountain as her lover was jailed for terrorism.
Nolan Adelpho is an indigo man. A brilliant bioscientist, he works hard to keep his job at the Centre (in the City) to find cures to gulden diseases. He is being awaited to take his proper place beside his fiancée in the country as befitting an indigo man.
Secondly, more importantly and pervasively, it is about a rift between the two major races: indigo and gulden. Clearly, their ways of life are markedly different purely based on gender roles. However, outside of that, there is so little that sets them apart, right down to their mistrust in and quest for dominance against the other race.
Thirdly, all the simmering contrasts and similarities between the races unfold through the characters and their jarring views and come to a head marked by love, betrayal, politics, genocide and an inevitable shattering of prejudices and perceptions.
Finally, through this story, I learned how my world had shaped my views. Despite being a feminist, I had my imagination stretched as I tried to comprehend the world Shinn created with such care and attention to detail. There were some events that were destined to happen, but others caught me completely by surprise. The drama and suspense, if the richness of the cultures and people was not enough, had me gripped to the end.
4-4.5 stars.
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Finished Reading
June 15, 2012
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