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A marriage made in heaven : a love story in letters / Vatsala and Ehud Sperling.
LIBRA CT275.S6238 A3 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sperling, Vatsala, 1961-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sperling, Vatsala, 1961---Correspondence.
- Sperling, Vatsala.
- Sperling, Ehud, 1949---Correspondence.
- Sperling, Ehud.
- Sperling, Ehud, 1949-.
- Sperling, Vatsala, 1961-.
- East Indian American women--Biography.
- East Indian American women.
- East Indians--Biography.
- East Indians.
- Matrimonial advertisements--India.
- Matrimonial advertisements.
- Love-letters.
- Courtship--India.
- Courtship.
- India.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Correspondence.
- Personal correspondence.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 276 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : Ten Speed Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- Defying her culture and tradition, a successful, highly educated Tamil Brahmin woman writes a letter to a prominent American book publisher who -- disillusioned with love in the Western world -- advertises in an Indian newspaper for an arranged marriage. Her letter launches this book's remarkable correspondence.
- What begins as an epistolary evaluation of compatibility quickly gives way to a yearlong sharing of hearts and minds that neither of these lovers could have predicted. In this intimate exchange of more than 60 letters, they raise as many questions as they answer:
- How will a strict Brahmin family react to a Jewish man raised in New York? Can an American child of the '60s forego physical intimacy before marriage? How can two intelligent, active, and fiercely independent people negotiate the contemporary minefields of gender roles, career, parenthood, desire, spirituality, and religion -- before they even meet?
- In her candid, unmistakable voice, Vatsala takes us from the teeming cities and steamy monsoons of South India to the snow-covered backwoods of New England, challenging our ideas of the foreign and the familiar.
- Deliciously funny and profoundly moving, this improbable love story may just change how you view relationships.
- Contents:
- Part I Namaste
- 1 Matrimonials 1
- 2 Reaching Out 7
- 3 Mukta 18
- 4 Let That Be 49
- 5 Dos and Don'ts 65
- 6 Mitzvoth 93
- 7 Sailing the Backwaters 127
- Part II Kalyanam
- 8 The Circle of Love 149
- 9 The Color of Abundance 185
- 10 The Big Gamble 213
- Part III Manzil
- 11 For Seven Lifetimes 235
- 12 The Right Moment, the Right Place 265.
- ISBN:
- 1580081827
- OCLC:
- 42861662
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