✔ Nunnery in the Himalaya, isolated and unwelcome ✔ Controversial novel about nuns ✔ Tension within the convent and with the locals
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★★★★★ Nuns with good intentions in the isolated hills out of Darjeeling, which used to be a harem. If that doesn't promise the hysteria and darkness. As expected they slowly went mad.
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Nuns with good intentions in the isolated hills out of Darjeeling, which used to be a harem. If that doesn't promise the hysteria and darkness, I don't know what does. As expected they slowly went mad.
It's in a way stereotypical, how can they dare to go out to someone else's back garden to preach, when the locals have been living perfectly fine. How could the women, with different tempers expect to live peacefully, when they're not welcome.
It's the dark side of living in Darjeeling hills, as the young General said, people go mad when they stay too close to the mountain Kanchenjunga, God.
Sexual tensions, the struggle between white supremacy and Christian philanthropy, the end of British Empire. And it did make it into a rather successful film and series. In the final days of the Imperial rule, some British also thought it was good and made a film out of it, too. I must watch it.
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