num_pages: 528
description: From an award-winning novelist a stunning portrait of late Raj Indiaa sweeping saga and a love story set against a background of huge political and cultural upheaval.YOU ASK FOR MY NAME THE REAL ONE AND I CANNOT TELL. IT IS NOT FOR LACK OF EFFORT.In 1930 a great ocean wave blots out a Bengali village leaving only one survivor a young girl. As a maidservant in a British boarding school Pom is renamed Sarah and discovers her gift for languages. Her private dreams almost die when she arrives in Kharagpur and is recruited into a secretive decadent world. Eventually she lands in Calcutta renames herself Kamala and creates a new life rich in books and friends. But although success and even love seem within reach she remains trapped by what she is . . . and is not. As India struggles to throw off imperial rule Kamala uses her hard-won skillsfor secrecy languages and reading the unspoken gestures of those around herto fight for her countrys freedom and her own happiness.
language: English
title: The Sleeping Dictionary
publisher: Gallery Books