Love's Garden
Nandini Bhattacharya
Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
It is 1898. India is ruled by the British, and India's women are ruled by British masters as well as Indian men. A desperate young widow makes a tragic sacrifice to save herself from ultimate dishonor. She marries a stranger for security and shelter, but her damaged second family pays dearly for this Faustian bargain. Then, an extraordinary atonement and strange liaisons in politics and love -- spanning the two world wars and the Indian independence movement -- help her descendants heal from this traumatic private history. LOVE'S GARDEN demonstrates the strength, resilience, and unbreakable spirit of mothers and daughters navigating layers of oppression, all while the sun is not-so-peacefully setting on British India.
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Indian writers, Historical Fiction, Reminiscent of the god of small things, Romance, Hindutva, Howrah Station, Indian authors, Gold, Political drama, Gandhi, Love your garden, Family saga, Jewel in the Crown, Domestic Fiction, Nehru, Subhash Chandra Bose, Forbidden love, Postcolonial, Victoria Memorial, Kolkata, Partition, Jew, Indian history, The Raj, Indian Literature, Nazi, Novel, Wwii historical, "Literature exposes us to distress", Minorities, Books on Indian history, Cultural India, Calcutta, Literary fiction