num_pages: 194
description: 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 remarkable fortitude and courage, she meets changing times and fights poverty and disaster. This beautiful and eloquent story tells of a simple peasant woman in a primitive village in India whose whole life is a gallant and persistent battle to care for those she loves—an unforgettable novel that “will wring your heart out” (Associated Press).
language: English
title: Nectar in a Sieve
titlecomplete: Nectar in a Sieve
genres: Fiction, Historical, Indian Literature, School, India, Literature, Read For School, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 10081
places: India
publisher: Signet