The toss of a lemon
By: Padma Viswanathan
Edition: 1st Mariner books ed.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 619
ISBN-13: 9780547247878
Subjects: Social conditions; Social life and customs; Women; Families; Fiction
Description: Spanning the lifetime of one woman (1896-1962), The Toss of a Lemon brings readers intimately into a Brahmin household, into an India in the midst of social and political upheaval. Married at ten, widowed at eighteen, left with two children, Sivakami must wear widow's whites, shave her head, and touch no one from dawn to dusk. She is not allowed to remarry, and in the next sixty years she ventures outside her family compound only three times ...
Notes: Originally published: Orlando : Harcourt, ℗♭2008.

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