Nectar in a Sieve - Softcover

Markandaya, Kamala

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1481927388 ISBN 13: 9781481927383

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

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 bestseller 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.

About this title

About the Author:

Kamala Markandaya was a pseudonym used by Kamala Purnaiya Taylor, an Indian novelist and journalist. Born in Bangalore, India in 1924, Markandaya was educated at the University of Madras in Chennai, India, and worked briefly for a weekly newspaper before emigrating to England in 1948. There she met her husband, with whom she lived in London. Nectar in a Sieve, her first novel, was published in 1954. She died in England in 2004.

Review:

“Comparable in many ways to Cry, The Beloved Country...if anything...better.”—Saturday Evening Post

“Nectar in a Sieve has a wonderful, quiet authority...without reticence or excess.”—Donald Barr, The New York Times
 
“A novel to retain in your heart.”—Milwaukee Journal

“Very moving.”—Harper’s Magazine

“An elemental book. It has something better than power, the truth of distilled experience.”—New York Herald Tribune
 
“Unique in poetic beauty, in classically restrained and controlled tragedy.”—Dorothy Canfield Fisher, noted author and critic
 
“A superb job in telling her story.”—The Christian Science Monitor

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1481927388
• ISBN 13: 9781481927383
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 102