Title: Flame tree road
Description: 1870s India.  In a tiny village where society is ruled by a caste system and women are defined solely by marriage, young Biren Roy dreams of forging a new destiny. When his mother suffers the fate of widowhood--shunned by her loved ones and forced to live in solitary penance--Biren devotes his life to effecting change.  Just when his vision for the future begins to look hopeless, he meets Maya, the independent-minded daughter of a local educator, and his soul is reignited.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Mothers and sons, Man-woman relationships, Widows, Caste, Fiction, Fiction, romance, historical, Widows, fiction, India, fiction, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Fiction, romance, historical, general, Manners and customs, Lawyers, History
Places: India
Time periods: 19th century