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Nectar In A Sieve

Kamala Markandaya

  • 234 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 1954
  • 17 editions
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1 About this book

Nectar in a Sieve is a 1954 novel by Kamala Markandaya. The book is set in India during a period of intense urban development and is the chronicle of the marriage between Rukmani, youngest daughter of a village headman, and Nathan, a tenant farmer. The story is told in the first person by Rukmani, beginning from her arranged marriage to Nathan at the age of 12 to his death many years later.

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  • India
  • Farm life
  • Married women
  • Women

2 About Kamala Markandaya

1924–2004

Kamala Markandaya (23 June 1924 – 16 May 2004), pseudonym of Kamala Purnaiya, married name Kamala Taylor, was a British Indian novelist and journalist. She has been called "one of the most important Indian novelists writing in English".

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