Nectar in a Sieve (Signet Classics)

Signet Classics

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UPC:
9780451531728
Maximum Purchase:
3 units
Binding:
Mass Market Paperback
Publication Date:
2010-12-07
Release Date:
2010-12-07
Author:
Kamala Markandaya
Language:
english
Edition:
Reissue
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The acclaimed million-copy bestselling novel about a womans 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 lovesan unforgettable novel that will wring your heart out (Associated Press).

Includes an Introduction by Indira Ganesan
And an Afterword by Thrity Umrigar