Malia, one of the daughters of Barack Obama, will go to college soon. It is for this reason that her father, the president of the United States until now, has wanted to recommend to his daughter the reading of 4 books, two of them clearly feminist.
One of the hobbies of which former President Obama has most boasted during his time in office, has been Literature. In an interview, he stated that this was the one who had done it. to be a better person, and the one that had accompanied him in his hard (sometimes) White House years. He even went so far as to say that thanks to the books, he had survived those years in office.
But What have been the literary recommendations to your daughter Malia? Next, we have a brief synopsis of each of them.
Doris Lessing's "The Golden Notebook"
This book by the writer Doris Lessing, recounts the deep life crisis of Anna Wulf, a divorced writer and communist militant. Only the new way of looking at reality can save it, and to this end Anna starts to write several notebooks, each one dedicated to a part of her existence. Failing to get them to give a complete picture of his existence, he begins to write the golden notebook, in which he aspires to capture all the loose ends of his story.
"The Naked and the Dead" by Norman Maler
"The Naked and the Dead" appeared in the United States in May 1948, exactly three years after the day of the victory of the Allies in World War II. Norman Mailer, its author, was then twenty-six years old, and after graduating from Harvard and enlisting in the army, he had been among the troops that occupied Japan after the defeat. Critics called his work "the greatest war novel written in this century", which over time has become a mythical book. Mailer was compared to Hemingway and Tolstoy and immediately ranked among the greats of American literature.
This book tells of some of those experiences lived by Mailer himself in World War II.
"The Warrior Woman" by Maxine Hong Kingston
This novel is autobiographical. It was published in a context in which the literary role of women was strongly questioned. Today, this issue is one of the quintessential feminist novels. As we understand it, it is the most commonly taught and used modern college textbook in the US.
"One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez
This great and well-known book by Gabriel García Márquez has also been highlighted by Obama. We have to remember that it is one of the best-selling books in history and as everyone knows for sure (can there be someone who is a regular reader who has not yet read this novel?) It tells the story of the Buendía family throughout seven generations in the fictional town of Macondo.
What do you think of the books that the former president of the United States has recommended to his daughter? For my taste, very successful ...