Someone Else’s Garden - Softcover

Rai, Dipika

3.62

449 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007443412 ISBN 13: 9780007443413

Publisher: William Collins, 2011

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A big, intensely involving and evocative Indian novel, perfect for fans of Vikas Swarup's Slumdog Millioniare, with its emotive and, ultimately, redemptive story.

Mamta is one of seven children and learns early on in her childhood what it means to be born female in rural India. Married to a savagely unkind and brutal husband, she flees to the city to try and make a new life for herself. Sharing her story are her mother, Lata Bai, the saintly Lokend, her ever-loving brother Prem, a soul-searching bandit and a brutal landlord. This is a redemptive story, despite the often unforgiving setting, and one that is difficult to put down.

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'Dipika Rai turns rural India into a setting for an epic tale of love and loss that feels timeless and familiar.' Jamal Mahjoub, author of The Drift Latitudes and Travelling with Djinns

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The eldest of seven children, born low-caste and female in rural India, Mamta is abused and rejected by a father whocan see no reason to "water someone else's garden" until ahusband is found for her. Seeking escape in matrimony, Mamta beginsher wedded life with hope--but is soon forced to flee her village and thehorrors of her arranged marriage to the bustle of a small city. Saved from becomingone of the nameless and faceless millions of rejected humanity by thesalvation of sublime love, Mamta struggles to find a precarious state ofacceptance and make peace with her past.

Powerfully affecting and uplifting, set against a vivid and colorful backgroundof Eastern life, Dipika Rai's Someone Else's Garden transcends geographicaldivides and cultural chasms to brilliantly expose the commonalityof the human condition, compelling us to seek answerswithin ourselves to humanity's eternalquestions: Is life random?Do we have a destiny?

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