Living in peaceful isolation with her sister, aunt, and grandmother, eighteen-year-old Chchanda finds her ordered world of women shattered by the presence of Pratap, her aunt's new husband. A first novel.
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Set in rural India, this quietly moving tale of doomed passion, scandal and betrayal sensitively probes one family's problems. Chchanda, the sarcastic, precocious teenage narrator, burns with resentment and insecurity when Aunt Madhulika, who raised her, brings home a fiance, selfish lawyer Pretap Singh. The household is a matriarchy: Chchanda's father abandoned them long ago and her mother is dead, leaving the aunt, Chchanda's sister Mala and Parvati, a thorny, vituperative Roman Catholic servant who is nevertheless embraced by the Hindu Brahmin family. Seduced by Singh, Chchanda guiltily carries on a secret affair with him while Madhulika is increasingly crippled by lupus. When her aunt dies, Chchandra, now pregnant, is free to marry her uncle-in-law, but fate and conscience intervene, taking her in a radically different direction. In sharp, shining prose Indian first novelist Aikath-Gyaltsen dissects domestic life with the gimlet precision of Jane Austen.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
This American debut by an Indian writer considers insularity, invasion, and betrayal in the quiet but profound realm of the home. On the banks of the Koel River near Ranchi sits Panditji's House, home to three generations of self-sufficient women. The house is the source of their identity and pride and the heart of this story. Young and self-absorbed, Chchandra becomes hostile and suspicious when faced with a male interloper, the new husband of her ailing aunt Madhulika. As this outsider and rival infiltrates the daily routines of Panditji's House, Madhulika succumbs to degenerative lupus, and a shocking complication irrevocably alters the household's equilibrium. The narrative voice, sometimes vague, sometimes overanalytical, dominates this imperfect debut. Appropriate for sizable fiction, feminist, and international collections.
- Janet Ingraham, Worthington P.L., Ohio
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Janet Ingraham, Worthington P.L., Ohio
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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