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Someone else's garden, a novel, Dipika Rai

Label
Someone else's garden, a novel, Dipika Rai
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Someone else's garden
Oclc number
641534005
Responsibility statement
Dipika Rai
Sub title
a novel
Summary
The eldest of seven children born low-caste in rural India, Mamta is abused and rejected by a father who can see no reason to "water someone else's garden" until a husband is found for her. Seeking escape in matrimony, Mamta is soon forced to flee her village and the horrors of her arranged marriage to the bustle of a small city, where she struggles to find a precarious state of acceptance and make peace with her past
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