description: This beautiful and eloquent story tells of a simple peasant woman in a primitive village in India whose whole life was a gallant and persistent battle to care for those she loved.Married as a child bride to a tenant farmer she had never seen, she worked side by side in the field with her husband to wrest a living from land that was ravaged by droughts, monsoons, and insects. With remarkable fortitude and courage, she sought to meet changing tmes and fight poverty and disaster. She saw one of her infants die from starvation, her daughter become a prostitute, and her sons leave the land for jobs which she distrusted. And somehow, she survived...
language: English
title: Nectar in a Sieve
titlecomplete: Nectar in a Sieve
genres: Fiction, Classics, Indian Literature, Read For School, Historical, India, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novels, School
ratings_count: 10079
places: India
publisher: The John Day Company