Keeping corner
By: Kashmira Sheth
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780786838592
Subjects: Child marriage; History; Women's rights; Widows; Family life; Fiction
Description: In India in the 1940s, twelve-year-old Leela's happy, spoiled childhood ends when her husband since age nine, whom she barely knows, dies, leaving her a widow whose only hope of happiness could come from Mahatma Ghandi's social and political reforms.