Sivakami was married at ten, widowed at eighteen, and left with two children. According to the dictates of her caste, her headΒ is shaved and she puts on widow's whites. From dawn to dusk, she is not allowed to contaminate herself with human touch, not even to comfort her small children. Β Sivakami d
The Toss of a Lemon
β Scribed by Viswanathan, Padma
- Book ID
- 106880063
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 746 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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### From Publishers Weekly Journalist, playwright and short-story writer Viswanathan's absorbing first novel, based on her grandmother's life, goes deep into the world of southern India village life. Starting in 1896, the story follows Sivakami, a Tamil Brahmin girl, from her marriage at the age of
SUMMARY: Sivakami was married at ten, widowed at eighteen, and left with two children. According to the dictates of her caste, her headΒ is shaved and she puts on widow's whites. From dawn to dusk, she is not allowed to contaminate herself with human touch, not even to comfort her small children.Β Siv
SUMMARY: Sivakami was married at ten, widowed at eighteen, and left with two children. According to the dictates of her caste, her headΒ is shaved and she puts on widow's whites. From dawn to dusk, she is not allowed to contaminate herself with human touch, not even to comfort her small children.Β Siv
### From Publishers Weekly Journalist, playwright and short-story writer Viswanathan's absorbing first novel, based on her grandmother's life, goes deep into the world of southern India village life. Starting in 1896, the story follows Sivakami, a Tamil Brahmin girl, from her marriage at the age of
"The Toss of a Lemon joins the company of the great novels on India." Yann Martel \*\*\* In a fiction debut to rival The God of Small Things, Padma Viswanathan gives us a richly detailed and intimate vision of an India we've never seen. Inspired by her family history, Padma Viswanathan brings