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Nectar in a sieve

  • Kamala Markandaya

3.00

3 ratings

In a small village in India, a simple peasant woman recalls her life as a child bride, a farmer's wife, and a devoted mother amidst fights to meet changing times, poverty, and disaster.

Genres

  • Farm life
  • Farmers' spouses
  • Fiction
  • History
  • Married women
  • Peasantry and peasant life
  • Women
  • Reading Level-Grade 11
  • Reading Level-Grade 10
  • Reading Level-Grade 12
  • Fiction, general
  • India, fiction
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About the author

  • Kamala Markandaya

    1924 - 2004

    3.44

    9 ratings · 44 works

Editions

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    Kessinger Publishing, LLC

    September 12, 2007

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    [1st American ed.]

    J. Day Co.

    1955

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    Sagebrush Education Resources

    October 1999

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    EMC/Paradigm Pub.

    2003

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Signet Classic

2002

  • Edition cover

    Putnam

    1954

  • Edition cover

    Signet

    July 1, 1970

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    Signet

    1982

  • Edition cover

    Jaico

    1956

  • Edition cover

    Signet

    May 1, 1968

  • Edition cover

    Signet

    1982

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    New American Library

    1954

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    J. Day Co.

    1954

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    Signet Books

    November 1, 1996

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    Perfection Learning Prebound

    September 1978

  • Edition cover

    J. Day

    1954

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    [2nd American ed.]

    J. Day Co.

    1955