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Black Peppers

Black Peppers

Purushothaman, Madhu

Paperback

Historical Fiction

ISBN10: 1494308991
ISBN13: 9781494308995
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 24 2012
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Gowri's world is jolted when a spate of murders of teenaged girls in her village seems inexplicably connected to her family's mysterious past. Her problems are compounded when her sister is subjected to smarthavicharam, a trial for adultery for Namboodiri Brahmin women, after being accused by her sister's husband Balaraman. Her sister is convicted, deemed a sathanam (an inanimate object) and given away to the untouchables. Contact with untouchables was forbidden for a Namboodiri, yet Gowri attempts to rescue her sister from the untouchables. For that she needs to fight the Namboodiri social system despite the limitations of a Namboodiri woman. Gowri and her teenaged friends put their own lives in danger as they try to uncover the mystery of their society, which is embedded deeply inside a complex social setup. Black Peppers is a suspense thriller, which is set in 1742 AD in a cluster of hamlets in the southern region of Kerala in India around the time when the then nascent kingdom of Travancore was taking shape. It also marks a period when European powers were jockeying with one another to establish a foothold in Kerala and take control of the spice trade.

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