Title: Raise the Lanterns High
First published: 2004
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Social life and customs, Women, Sati, Fiction, general, India, fiction, Fiction, psychological
Places: India
LC classification: PR9265.9.P39 R34 2004