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Nectar in a Sieve

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Nectar in a Sieve

By: Kamala Markandaya
Narrated by: Jody Lebel
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Based on the original edition; first publication was in the USA in 1954.

In a small village in India, a simple peasant woman recalls her life as a child bride, a farmer's wife, and a devoted mother amidst fights to meet changing times, poverty, and disaster. This is the very moving story of a woman in India whose whole life was a gallant and persistent battle to care for those she loved. Markandaya's first published novel Nectar in a Sieve was a best seller and cited as an American Library Association Notable Book in 1955. Its depiction of rural India and the suffering of its poor made it popular in the West.

©1954 The John Day Company (P)2022 Licensing Management, Inc.
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