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Nectar in a Sieve (PocketBook)

Nectar in a Sieve (PocketBook)
Nectar in a Sieve (PocketBook)
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Book Specifications

SKUID
:
o490
ISBN
:
Published Year
:
1954
Author
:
Kamala Markandaya
Publisher
:
Signet Book
Book Condition
:
Used Good
Condition Note
:
This used book is in good condition. Pages are yellowish color.
Book Binding Type
:
Paper Back
Language
:
English
No. of Pages
:
190
Dimensions
:
17.5 x 10.5 cm
Availability
:
Out Of Stock

Book Description

This beautiful and eloquent story tells of a simple peasant woman in a primitive village in India whose whole life was a gallant and persistent battle to care for those she loved.

Married as a child-bride to a tenant farmer she had never seen, she worked side by side in the field with her husband to wrest a living from land that was ravaged by droughts, monsoons, and insects. With remarkable fortitude and courage, she sought to meet changing times and fight poverty and disaster. She saw one of her infants die from starvation, her daughter becomes a prostitute, and her sons leave the land for jobs which she distrusted.