Nectar in a Sieve - (Signet Classics) by Kamala Markandaya (Paperback)

Nectar in a Sieve is an unforgettable novel that will wring your heart out, following the story of a simple peasant woman in India who fights poverty and disaster with remarkable fortitude and courage.

Married as a child bride to a tenant farmer she had never met, Rukmani works side by side in the field with her husband to wrest a living from a land ravaged by droughts, monsoons, and insects.

With an introduction by Indira Ganesan and an afterword by Thrity Umrigar, this beautifully written novel has been praised as "comparable in many ways to Cry, The Beloved Country...if anything...better" (Saturday Evening Post).

Don't miss out on this elemental book that has something better than power - the truth of distilled experience.

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