Raise the lanterns high
By: Lakshmi Persaud.
Publisher: BlackAmber
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
Subjects: Women -- India -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.; Sati -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "On the eve of her arrainged marriage, Vasti discovers that she is due to marry the rapist she saw in a sugar cane field years earlier. A horrific dilemma befalls her, she can either speak out, defy convention and bring the family name in disrepute or submit silently to her fate. The emotional strain is too much: the bride to be collapses, and while unconscious, travels in a dream from her home in 1960s Trinidad back to the 18th century city of Jyotika in North India.........." -- Back cover.