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Sacred waters / Meira Chand.
Van Pelt Library PR6053.H319 S23 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chand, Meira, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- East Indians--Fiction.
- East Indians.
- Women--Fiction.
- Women.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 407 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi : Amaryllis, 2018.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Orphaned as a child and widowed at thirteen, Sita has always known the shame of being born female in Indian society. Her life constrained and shaped by the men around her, she could not be more different from her daughter, Amita, a headstrong university professor determined to live life on her own terms. While trying to unravel the mysteries in her mother's past, Amita encounters a traumatic event that leads her down the path of self-discovery. Unfolding simultaneously, their stories are set against the dramatic sweep of India's anti-colonial struggle in the 1940s, and move between past and present, from rural India to the chaotic Burmese battlefront where Sita experiences life as a recruit in the Indian National Army, to modern-day Singapore.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 407)
- ISBN:
- 9789388241342
- 9388241347
- OCLC:
- 1101905531
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