The sleeping dictionary
By: Sujata Massey
Edition: First Gallery Books trade paperback edition.
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9781476703169; 9781476703251
Subjects: Passive resistance; Young women; Politics and government; Fiction; Social life and customs
Description: Kamala, a young peasant woman from West Bengal, is drawn into a forbidden romance in 1930s Calcutta and is caught between the country's independence movement and the British colonial society in which she lives.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-496).