Saraswati's way
By: Monika Schröder.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780374364113
Subjects: Education -- Fiction; Mathematics -- Fiction; Hindu goddesses -- Fiction; New Delhi (India) -- Fiction; India -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: Leaving his village in rural India to find a better education, mathematically gifted, twelve-year-old Akash ends up at the New Delhi train station, where he relies on Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of knowledge, to guide him as he negotiates life on the street, resists the temptations of easy money, and learns whom he can trust.
Notes: "Frances Foster books."