Nectar in a Sieve

Name: Nectar in a Sieve
Author: Kamala Markandaya

by Kamala Markandaya

Poignant portrait of rural Indian woman's struggle against poverty and fate

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Kamala Markandaya

Indian novelist who wrote in English about the tensions between rural and urban India, tradition and modernity. Nectar in a Sieve is her most widely read novel.

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