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The toss of a lemon / Padma Viswanathan.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.4.V57 T67 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Viswanathan, Padma, 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--India--Fiction.
- Women.
- Social conditions.
- Families.
- India.
- Families--India--Fiction.
- India--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Manners and customs.
- India--Social conditions--20th century--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 619 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, [2008]
- Summary:
- Spanning the lifetime of one woman (1896-1962), The Toss of a Lemon brings readers intimately into a Brahmin household, into an India in the midst of social and political upheaval. Married at ten, widowed at eighteen, left with two children, Sivakami must wear widow's whites, shave her head, and touch no one from dawn to dusk. She is not allowed to remarry, and in the next sixty years she ventures outside her family compound only three times. She is extremely orthodox in her behavior except for one defiant act: She moves back to her dead husband's house and village to raise her children. That decision sets the course of her children's and grandchildren's lives, twisting their fates in surprising, sometimes heartbreaking ways.
- ISBN:
- 9780151015337
- 0151015333
- OCLC:
- 212846514
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