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The Woman Who Knew Gandhi

The Woman Who Knew Gandhi

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Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0618335455
ISBN13: 9780618335459
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: Jan 7 2004
Pages: 207
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.53 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.24
Language: English

Based on an aside in Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography, in which he mentions a brief but seductive youthful flirtation with an Englishwoman, The Woman Who Knew Gandhi boldly imagines a long correspondence between a spiritual leader from the East and an ordinary woman from the West. In 1948, just after Gandhi's assassination, Martha Houghton receives a letter from Gandhi's son, who himself lies dying of tuberculosis in Bombay. Having found a stash of her letters to his father, he asks to meet her. The request sends Martha into a tailspin, for her husband knows nothing of her lifelong friendship with Gandhi.

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