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Nectar in a Sieve

By: Kamala Markandaya
Narrated by: Jody Lebel
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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 a best seller 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.

©1954 The John Day Company (P)2022 Licensing Management, Inc. Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Women's Fiction World Literature
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The book that could have been 50 pages if 300 pages wasn't about how rakmani was always starving

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The classic story was only inhibited by its telling. I don’t know why someone with a speech impediment such as a lisp would ever be selected to perform an audio book.

Lisp

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Cliches abound...descriptions of poverty were painful and accurate but the characters and deep story was not complex or rich
The reader was terrible emphasized the wrong word in every sentence

Cliches abound except poverty was real

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