Nectar in a sieve
By: Kamala Markandaya.
Series: The EMC masterpiece series access editions
Publisher: EMC/Paradigm Pub.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Saint Paul, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
Subjects: Women -- India -- Fiction.; Farm life -- India -- Fiction.; India -- History -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In a small village in India, a simple peasant woman recalls her life as a child bride, a farmer's wife, and a devoted mother amidst fights to meet changing times, poverty, and disaster.
Table of contents: title: Nectar in a sieve; title: Plot analysis of Nectar in a sieve; title: Work without hope / Samuel Taylor Coleridge; title: In the family way / Andy Steiner; title: Scene from a marriage / Rebecca Segall; title: Grains of hope / Hannah Beech, Meenakshi Ganguly, and Nelly Sindayen; title: The rich get richer; title: Creative writing activities; title: Critical writing activities; title: Projects.