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Water

Water

Sidhwa, Bapsi

Paperback

Series: Bapsi Sidwha

General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 1571310568
ISBN13: 9781571310569
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: Mar 29 2006
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.69 Width: 4.98 Depth: 8.04
Language: English

An eight-year-old is sent to live in a community of widows in India, and finds a new purpose there, in a novel by a writer of enormous talent (Newsday).

Set in 1938, against the backdrop of Gandhi's rise to power, Water follows the life of eight-year-old Chuyia, abandoned at a widow's ashram after the death of her elderly husband. There, she must live in penitence until her death. Unwilling to accept her fate, she becomes a catalyst for change in the widows' lives. When her friend Kalyani, a beautiful widow-prostitute, falls in love with a young, upper-class Gandhian idealist, the forbidden affair boldly defies Hindu tradition and threatens to undermine the ashram's delicate balance of power. This riveting look at the lives of widows in colonial India is ultimately a haunting and lyrical story of love, faith, and redemption.

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