Nectar in a Sieve

By Kamala Markandaya
Introduction by Indira Ganesan
Afterword by Thrity Umrigar

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About Nectar in a Sieve

The acclaimed million-copy bestselling novel about a woman’s struggle to find happiness in a changing India.

Married as a child bride to a tenant farmer she had never met, Rukmani works side by side in the field with her husband to wrest a living from a land ravaged by droughts, monsoons, and insects. With remarkable fortitude and courage, she meets changing times and fights poverty and disaster.
 
This beautiful and eloquent story tells of a simple peasant woman in a primitive village in India whose whole life is a gallant and persistent battle to care for those she loves—an unforgettable novel that “will wring your heart out” (Associated Press).

Includes an Introduction by Indira Ganesan
And an Afterword by Thrity Umrigar

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Praise

“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

About Kamala Markandaya

Kamala Markandaya (1924–2004) was a pseudonym used by Indian author and journalist Kamala Purnaiya Taylor. Her first novel, Nectar in a Sieve, was a bestseller and an American Library Association Notable Book. Kamala went on to write a number of… More about Kamala Markandaya

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Mass Market Paperback
Published by Signet
Dec 07, 2010 | 224 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-3/4 | ISBN 9780451531728

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