![]() But Satya, a sophisticated, well-mannered woman who resents the English intrusion on her homeland, is anguished by this attractive peasant rival from the village who has stolen Sardarji’s attentions. Sardarji’s childless marriage to Satya has prompted him to seek a fertile second wife. Her prayers seem answered when the Sikh Sardarji, a wealthy, Oxford-educated engineer working for the British, asks for her hand in marriage. Growing up without a mother in a world in which myths are the only luxury, Roop, an ambivalent Sikh, dreams of escape. ![]() ![]() A richly textured, often poetic story of one East Indian woman’s tumultuous personal fortunes as they develop against the backdrop of India’s independence. ![]()
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