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Nectar in a Sieve |
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Kamala Markandaya - Author
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| Book: Paperback: Mass Market | 4.25 x 6.73in | 208 pages | ISBN 9780451528230 | 01 Jan 2002 | Signet Classic | 18 - AND UP |
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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 the 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 become a prostitute, and her sons leave the land for jobs which she distrusted. And, somehow, she survived… 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—an unforgettable novel that “Will wring your heart out.” (Associated Press)
“Comparable in many ways to Cry, The Beloved Country…if anything…better.”
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Saturday Evening Post
“Nectar in a Sieve has a wonderful, quiet authority…without reticence or excess.”
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The New York Times
“A novel to retain in your heart.”
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Milwaukee Journal
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