· Overview. An unforgettable, deeply affecting debut novel, The Blue Notebook tells the story of Batuk, a precocious fifteen-year-old girl from rural India who is sold into sexual slavery by her father. As she navigates the grim realities of Mumbai’s Common Street, Batuk manages to put pen to paper, recording her private thoughts and writing fantastic tales that help her transcend her daily bltadwin.ru: Random House Publishing Group. He has won more than fifty major awards in science, consulted to numerous governments, and lectures to humanitarian groups around the world. He is the author of the novel The Blue Notebook/5. James A. Levine, a professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic, is the gifted author. During a research trip to Mumbai, Levine was walking down the infamous “Street of Cages” when he noticed a young girl writing in a notebook. Stopping to chat, he discovered she was writing about her frightening life as a sex slave.
Dear bltadwin.ru now and then, we come across a novel that moves us like no other, that seems like a miracle of the imagination, and that haunts us long after the book is closed. The Blue Notebook James A. Levine, Author Spiegel Grau $23 (p) ISBN Buy this book. Levine, a doctor at the Mayo clinic, was inspired to write this heartbreaking and. The Blue Notebook By James A. Levine Completed Ap The Blue Notebook was one of the most eloquent but haunting books I have read in a long time. Its the story of Batuk, a year-old prostitute, whose father sold her into sexual slavery when she was nine. Living in a brothel in.
Every now and then, we come across a novel that moves us like no other, that seems like a miracle of the imagination, and that haunts us long after the book is closed. James Levine’s The Blue Notebook is that kind of book. It is the story of Batuk, an Indian girl who is taken to Mumbai from the countryside and sold into prostitution by her father; the blue notebook is her diary, in which she recalls her early childhood, records her life on the Common Street, and makes up beautiful and. The Blue Notebook is a first person narrative of a courageous and intelligent girl surviving as best she can the lethal trade that is conducted on her body and life. An imaginative storyteller, her own story is woven with fairy tales and philosophy as she makes meaning out of her afflictions and finds empathy even for some of the people who are engaged in the brutal violence against her. The Blue Notebook, as has already been discussed in previous reviews, came about because of interviews by Dr. James Levine, the author, with a young East Indian prostitute. Dr. Levine created the world of Batuk, his fictional character, but in every detail it could be the life of one of the thousands of exploited children to whose benefit the proceeds of this book are going to be donated.
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