Nectar In A Sieve

Author : Kamala Markandaya
Publisher : Ravenio Books
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya Pdf

“This Is a Novel to Retain in Your Heart and Library” —Milwaukee Journal In the sun-baked fields of rural India, Rukmani and Nathan toil side by side, their love woven into the very fabric of the land. Their days are marked by the rhythm of seasons—the planting of rice saplings, the monsoon rains that breathe life into parched soil, and the harvest that sustains their family. But life is not idyllic. Famine stalks the village, and hunger gnaws at their bellies. Rukmani clings to hope, her spirit unyielding even as the world shifts around her. She witnesses the encroachment of modernity—the distant hum of factories, the allure of city lights—and wonders if progress will bring salvation or destruction. As Rukmani’s children grow, so do their dreams. Selvam, the eldest, seeks education beyond the village; Irawaddy, the daughter, yearns for love and security. Through it all, Rukmani remains the heart of their home, her hands stained with the colors of life—earth, blood, and sweat. Nectar in a Sieve is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit. Kamala Markandaya’s prose weaves a tapestry of love, loss, and endurance. Amidst the harsh realities of poverty and change, Rukmani’s unwavering love for Nathan becomes a beacon—a nectar that sustains them through hardship. “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 “Will wring your hearts.”—Associated Press “A superb job in telling her story.”—Christian Science Monitor

Author : Kamala Markandaya
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Criminals
ISBN : UOM:39015066698278

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A Handful of Rice by Kamala Markandaya Pdf

"Kamala Markandaya, whose Nectar in a Sieve (1955) was a miniature epic about India's poor, returns to the earlier concerns of that book in A Handful of Rice. Ravi is a village son who has left his desolate, destitute home for the promise of the city. There he falls into the company of similarly rootless young men, presided over by the wily city boy, Damodar, who appears fitfully through the book as a seducer to criminal and get-rich-quick schemes which Damodar is clever enough to survive and thrive by. By a chance misdeed, Ravi becomes acquainted with the tailor Apu and his family; Apu's daughter Nalini wins his heart and brings him from the streets into the already crowded household, first as Apu's apprentice, then his son-in-law. The author recreates the life of the respectable poor with moving fidelity as they face the problems of food, illness, unemployment. When Apu dies, the still rebellious but worn Ravi, now a father of three and head of the household, cannot keep his customers. After the death of his son, he reverts to the street, but Damodar now discards him as unfit for dangerous enterprises, and he ends storming the rice supplies with the mob. A portrait in poverty, which is part of the history of our times. It is less compelling than the earlier book as a novel while managing the same concerned compassion."--Kirkus

Author : Kamala Markandaya
Publisher : Ravenio Books
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya Pdf

“This Is a Novel to Retain in Your Heart and Library” —Milwaukee Journal In the sun-baked fields of rural India, Rukmani and Nathan toil side by side, their love woven into the very fabric of the land. Their days are marked by the rhythm of seasons—the planting of rice saplings, the monsoon rains that breathe life into parched soil, and the harvest that sustains their family. But life is not idyllic. Famine stalks the village, and hunger gnaws at their bellies. Rukmani clings to hope, her spirit unyielding even as the world shifts around her. She witnesses the encroachment of modernity—the distant hum of factories, the allure of city lights—and wonders if progress will bring salvation or destruction. As Rukmani’s children grow, so do their dreams. Selvam, the eldest, seeks education beyond the village; Irawaddy, the daughter, yearns for love and security. Through it all, Rukmani remains the heart of their home, her hands stained with the colors of life—earth, blood, and sweat. Nectar in a Sieve is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit. Kamala Markandaya’s prose weaves a tapestry of love, loss, and endurance. Amidst the harsh realities of poverty and change, Rukmani’s unwavering love for Nathan becomes a beacon—a nectar that sustains them through hardship. “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 “Will wring your hearts.”—Associated Press “A superb job in telling her story.”—Christian Science Monitor

Author : Michael West,D. K. Swan
Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0582541476

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Five Famous Fairy Tales by Michael West,D. K. Swan Pdf

The White Birds; The Fisherman and the Giant; The Glass Box; The Prince and his Servants; The Table, the Donkey and the Stick.

Author : Kamala Markandaya
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Domestic fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007491710

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Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya Pdf

Set in a village in southern India shortly after India gained independence, Nectar in a Sieve portrays, through the lives of its characters -Rukmani, Nathan and their children - the hopes and aspirations of a young nation recently embarked on the path of development, surmounting many obstacles along the way. Few novels ever published have celebrated the human spirit, its sheer resilience, with greater success.

Author : R. K. Narayan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006-08-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440623110

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The Guide by R. K. Narayan Pdf

For the centennial of his birth, R. K. Narayan's most celebrated novel Formerly India's most corrupt tourist guide, Raju—just released from prison—seeks refuge in an abandoned temple. Mistaken for a holy man, he plays the part and succeeds so well that God himself intervenes to put Raju's newfound sanctity to the test. Narayan's most celebrated novel, The Guide won him the National Prize of the Indian Literary Academy, his country's highest literary honor. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Shashi Deshpande
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : India
ISBN : 0140294872

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Small Remedies by Shashi Deshpande Pdf

Shashi Deshpande's latest novel explores the lives of two women, one obsessed with music and the other a passionate believer in Communism, who break away from their families to seek fulfilment in public life. Savitribai Indorekar, born into an orthodox Hindu family, elopes with her Muslim lover and accompanist, Ghulaam Saab, to pursue a career in music. Gentle, strong-willed Leela, on the other hand, gives her life to the Party, and to working with the factory workers of Bombay. Fifty years after these events have been set in motion, Madhu, Leela's niece, travels to Bhavanipur, Savitribai's home in her last years, to write a biography of Bai. Caught in her own despair over the loss of her only son. Madhu tries to make sense of the lives of Bai and those around her, and in doing so, seeks to find a way out of her own grief.

Author : Rawi Hage
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735273641

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Stray Dogs by Rawi Hage Pdf

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE From the internationally acclaimed author of the novels De Niro’s Game, Cockroach, Carnival and Beirut Hellfire Society, here is a captivating and cosmopolitan collection of stories. In Montreal, a photographer’s unexpected encounter with actress Sophia Loren leads to a life-altering revelation about his dead mother. In Beirut, a disillusioned geologist eagerly awaits the destruction that will come with an impending tsunami. In Tokyo, a Jordanian academic delivering a lecture at a conference receives haunting news from the Persian Gulf. And in Berlin, a Lebanese writer forms a fragile, fateful bond with his voluble German neighbours. The irresistible characters in Stray Dogs lead radically different lives, but all are restless travelers, moving between states—nation-states and states of mind—seeking connection, escaping the past and following delicate threads of truth, only to experience the sometimes shocking, sometimes amusing and often random ways our fragile modern identities are constructed, destroyed, and reborn. Politically astute, philosophically wise, humane, relevant and caustically funny, these stories reveal the singular vision of award-winning writer Rawi Hage at his best.

Author : Kamala Markandaya
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789351187448

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Pleasure City by Kamala Markandaya Pdf

An unlikely friendship helps create beauty and luxury in a coastal paradise. When British multinational AIDCORP lands a project to build a tourist complex—Shalimar—in a coastal village in south India, Mr Tully, one of the directors, arrives at the village to oversee the construction. There he meets Rikki, an orphaned fisher boy, and a deep and abiding friendship arises between the two, notwithstanding the gulf between their lives. The fisher community is torn when half the fishermen begin to work with the company, leaving the other half to suffer from a shrinking catch. Rikki must find a way to pay off his parents’ debt, but he cannot abandon his life near the sea. Thanks to his fluent English, learned from an old English couple who used to live in the village, he begins to work for Tully. Though they come from vastly different worlds, Tully and Rikki learn to accept and value each other: a human relationship forged from the shared human need for goodwill, affection and understanding. It is with the help of this alliance of mutual respect that Shalimar is successfully built, and Tully manages to restore Avalon, a mansion his grandfather built in the area. Pleasure City explores the issues of the interaction between East and West, native tradition and imported technology, in the context of the scientific and technical development of an India that is, well after Independence, racing ahead to forge its postcolonial identity. It is an identity that, like Shalimar, grows from collaboration between East and West, and mutual exchange of ideas and knowledge.

Author : Kamala Markandaya
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Fiction
ISBN : IND:30000047623198

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Two Virgins by Kamala Markandaya Pdf

Author : Kamala Markandaya
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788184759945

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The Golden Honeycomb by Kamala Markandaya Pdf

Prince Rabi, the fiercely proud heir to the throne of Devapur, and Sophie, the headstrong daughter of the British Resident, have known each other from childhood. Growing up in a world fraught with political intrigue and divided loyalties, both were aware of the troubled alliance that existed between the British and the Indians—and of the boundary between them that they were forbidden to cross. But all this changes one night when, during the revelries of a village festival, the two find themselves passionately drawn to each other. Realizing what is at stake, the lovers dare to defy every rule of class and race—only to find themselves torn apart on the crossroads of desire and destiny. Panoramic in its sweep and intimate in its portrayal of human relationships, The Golden Honeycomb is an epic love story set against the splendour and turbulence of the British Raj and the growing struggle for Indian independence.

Author : Kamala Markandaya
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Anglo-Indian fiction
ISBN : 9780143102519

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A Silence of Desire by Kamala Markandaya Pdf

He Was Not Himself Because His Wife Was Not Herself, Because In Marriage You Acted And Reacted One Upon The Other, However Much You Wished It Otherwise, And Whether You Wanted To Or No. Dandekar Is A Routine-Bound Government Clerk Who Is Able To Provide His Family With A Comfortable Life. But His Ordered Existence Is Thrown Off Course When, One Day, He Comes Home From Work To Find His Wife, Sarojini, Missing. On Her Return She Gives Him An Excuse For Her Disappearance Which He Realizes Is A Lie, Further Rousing His Suspicions. Doubt And Mistrust Plague Him And He Puts His Career In Jeopardy When He Begins To Trail Sarojini In The Hope That He Might Find Her With Another Man. But When He Stumbles Across The Truth He Gets More Than He Bargained For. In A Silence Of Desire Kamala Markandaya Explores The Tension Between The East And The West Between Superstition And Science, Faith And Reason, Tradition And Progress In A Profound Manner.

Author : Kamala Markandaya
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : British
ISBN : 0143102125

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The Coffer Dams by Kamala Markandaya Pdf

The Coffer Dams Is An Absorbing Tale About Mechanical Strength And Spiritual Weakness, Physical Certainties And Moral Doubts. It Is Set In Modern India But The Conflict Of Values At Its Heart Is Universal John Masters Clinton, Founder And Head Of A Firm Of International Construction Engineers, Arrives In India To Build A Dam, Bringing With Him His Young Wife, Helen, And A Strong Team Of Aides And Skilled Men. They Are Faced With A Formidable Project, Which Involves Working In Daunting Mountain And Jungle Terrain, Within A Time Schedule Dictated By The Extreme Tropical Weather. Inevitable Setbacks Occur; Accidents And Friction Among The Mixed Labour Force Present Further Complications. But To Clinton The Building Of The Dam Is More Than A Challenge; It Is An Obsession Not, However, Shared By Helen. Appalled By Her Husband S Concern With Structures Rather Than With Men, She Turns To The Local Indian Tribesmen, Finding In Them The Human Values She Finds Lacking In The British Camp. With Relations Between The Clintons Becoming Increasingly Raw-Edged, The First Rains Fall And, As The Torrents Sweep The Valley And The Level Of The River Rises, So Does The Tension In The Beleaguered Camp. The Vital Question Looms: To Breach The Coffer Dams, Or Allow Them To Stand, Thereby Placing The Lives Of The Tribesmen In Jeopardy. It Is A Fundamental Question That Splits The Camp Exposing The Lingering Prejudices Of A Bygone Colonial Era. First Published In 1969, The Coffer Dams Is Vintage Kamala Markandaya, A Pioneer Who Influenced Many Indian Writers In English.

Author : Shashi Deshpande
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000-10-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789351181613

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Dark Holds No Terrors by Shashi Deshpande Pdf

Why are you still alive-why didn't you die?' Years on, Sarita still remembers her mother's bitter words uttered when as a little girl she was unable to save her younger brother from drowning. Now, her mother is dead and Sarita returns to the family home, ostensibly to take care of her father, but in reality to escape the nightmarish brutality her husband inflicts on her every night. In the quiet of her old father's company Sarita reflects on the events of her life: her stultifying small town childhood, her domineering mother, her marriage to the charismatic young poet Mahohar.

Author : Kamala Markandaya
Publisher : Perfection Learning
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1613831781

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Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya Pdf

The story of a simple woman of India and her struggle to find happiness in a changing India and to fight poverty and disaster.