Nectar in a Sieve - Brossura

Markandaya, Kamala

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0451531728 ISBN 13: 9780451531728

Casa editrice: Signet, 2010

Riassunto

Featuring an Introduction by Indira Ganesan, this critically acclaimed novel tells the story of India and its people through the eyes of one woman and her experiences in one peasant family in a primitive Indian village. Reissue.

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Recensione:

“Comparable in many ways to Cry, The Beloved Country...if anything...better.”—Saturday Evening Post

“Nectar in a Sieve has a wonderful, quiet authority...without reticence or excess.”—Donald Barr, The New York Times
 
“A novel to retain in your heart.”—Milwaukee Journal

“Very moving.”—Harper’s Magazine

“An elemental book. It has something better than power, the truth of distilled experience.”—New York Herald Tribune
 
“Unique in poetic beauty, in classically restrained and controlled tragedy.”—Dorothy Canfield Fisher, noted author and critic
 
“A superb job in telling her story.”—The Christian Science Monitor

L'autore:

Kamala Markandaya was a pseudonym used by Kamala Purnaiya Taylor, an Indian novelist and journalist. Born in Bangalore, India in 1924, Markandaya was educated at the University of Madras in Chennai, India, and worked briefly for a weekly newspaper before emigrating to England in 1948. There she met her husband, with whom she lived in London. Nectar in a Sieve, her first novel, was published in 1954. She died in England in 2004.

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• Editore: Signet
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0451531728
• ISBN 13: 9780451531728
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224