KAMALA MARKANDAYA: NECTAR IN A SIEVE

Nectar in a Sieve “A NOVEL TO RETAIN IN YOUR HEART” -Milwaukee Journal 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. Married as a child bride to a tenant farmer she had never seen, she worked side in the field with her husband to wrest a living from 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.... “Probably the ablest Indian novelist now writing in English...author of the finest novel by an Indian I have ever read, Nectar in a Sieve.” -The New York Times “Comparable in many ways to Cry, The Beloved Country... If anything....better.” -Saturday Evening Post

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