Nectar in a Sieve (Signet Classics)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 13
9780451531728
Category
Unknown
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Publication Year
2010
Publisher
Pages
224
Description
The acclaimed million-copy bestselling novel about a woman’s struggle to find happiness in a changing India.Married as a child bride to a tenant farmer she had never met, Rukmani works side by side in the field with her husband to wrest a living from a land ravaged by droughts, monsoons, and insects. With remarkable fortitude and courage, she meets changing times and fights poverty and disaster. This beautiful and eloquent story tells of a simple peasant woman in a primitive village in India whose whole life is a gallant and persistent battle to care for those she loves—an unforgettable novel that “will wring your heart out” (Associated Press).Includes an Introduction by Indira Ganesan And an Afterword by Thrity Umrigar - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
