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Silk fish opium / Jaina Sanga.
Van Pelt Library PR9499.4.S26 S55 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sanga, Jaina C., 1961- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--India--Fiction.
- Women.
- Young women--India--Fiction.
- Young women.
- Musicians--India--Fiction.
- Musicians.
- India.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 328 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chennai : Tranquebar Press, [2012]
- Summary:
- "At a time of extraordinary ferment, when India is poised for Independence and Partition, young Rohini, the daughter of a wealthy Hindu silk-trader, dares to fall in love with Hanif, an ordinary Muslim musician. A relationship with Hanif comes with the dangers and thrills that Rohini has only read of in Western novels, with clandestine meetings in cinema halls and trysts at local train stations. Yet it also threatens to sever her from everything safe and familiar - the sea-facing bungalow in Bombay, the security of familial love, the blessed ease of an arranged marriage to an affluent diamond merchant newly returned from South Africa. As India claims that dream of sovereignty, Rohini must opt for one of two lives. Will she embrace an existence that promises risk and happiness? Or choose one that comes with painless compromise, the kind her family had once made as traders in opium?"--Page [4] of cover.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9789381626832
- 9381626839
- OCLC:
- 891786837
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