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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...

Set in a village in India shortly after Independence, child bride Nathan must survive poverty and disaster.

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Set in India, an ecological novel well ahead of its time. British colonialists attempt to tame nature with disastrous consequences.

Set in 1968, the year of Enoch Powell's infamous "Rivers of Blood" speech, The Nowhere Man is an intricate, perceptive tragedy of alienation centered around the violent racism sparked by Britain's post-war immigration drive.

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Am Ende ihrer Tage hält eine indische Bauernfrau Rückschau auf ihr Leben. Drei Schwestern wurden vor ihr verheiratet, und als die Reihe an sie kam, war als Mitgift nicht einmal mehr ein diamantener Nasenschmuck übrig. Aber auch der Pachtbauer Nathan, an den die Eltern sie verheirateten, hat nichts zu geben als Liebe und Sorge. In seiner Lehmhütte mit dem Palmblätterdach, bei der Arbeit auf den kleinen Reisfeldern scheint eine glückliche Zeit z...

Wie Millionen andere ist Ravi aus seinem indischen Dorf in die Großstadt geflohen. Als obdachloser Gassenjunge schlägt er sich mit Gelegenheitsarbeiten und kleinen Diebereien durch. Ständig wird er von der Polizei gejagt, bis sich unverhofft ein Ausweg auftut: Der alte Schneider Apu findet Gefallen an dem flinken Kerl, nimmt ihn in seine Werkstatt auf und macht ihn schließlich zu seinem Schwiegersohn.Ob der »ehrliche« Weg nach oben führt? Die ...

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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...

2016 Reprint of 1954 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The novel 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 y...

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...