Nectar in a Sieve
Markandaya, Kamala / Ganesan, Indira / Umrigar, Thrity
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 sim...