The Toss of a Lemon
Language: English
Published by Random House Canada, Toronto, 2008
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8vo pp. 1 619. SIGNED and dedicated by the author on the title page, Â"In south India in 1896, ten-year old Sivakami is about to embark on a new life. Hanumarathnam, a village healer with some renown as an astrologer, has approached her parents with a marriage proposal. In keeping with custom, he provides his prospective.
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- Title
- The Toss of a Lemon
- Author
- Padma Viswanathan
- Publisher
- Random House Canada, Toronto
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Signed
- Signed by author
- Book Type
- book
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0307356329
- ISBN 13
- 9780307356321
- Seller catalogs
- Canadian Literature
Despite the ominous horoscope, Sivakamis parents hesitate only briefly, won over by the young man and his familys reputation as good, upstanding Brahmins. Once married, Sivikami and Hanumarathnam grow to love one another and the bride, now in her teens, settles into a happy life. But the predictions of Hanumarathnams horoscope are never far from her new husbands mind. When their first child is born, as a strategy for accurately determining his childs astrological charts, Hanumarathnam insists the midwife toss a lemon from the window of the birthing room the moment his child appears. All is well with their first child, a daughter, Thangam, whose birth has a positive influence on her fathers astrological future. But this influence is fleeting: when a son, Vairum, is born, his horoscope confirms that his father will die within three years.
Resigned to his fate, Hanumarathnam sets himself to the unpleasant task of readying his household for his imminent death. Knowing the hardships and social restrictions Sivakami will face as a Brahmin widow, he hires and trains a servant boy called Muchami to help Sivakami manage the household and properties until Vairum is of age.
When Sivakami is eighteen, Hanumarathnam dies as predicted. Relentless in her adherence to the traditions that define her Brahmin caste, she shaves her head and dons the white sari of the widow. With some reluctance, she moves to her family home to raise her children under the protection of her brothers, but then realizes that they are not acting in the best interests of her children. With her daughter already married to an unreliable husband of her brothers choosing, and Vairums future also at risk, Sivakami leaves her brothers and returns to her marital home to raise her family.
With the freedom to make decisions for her sons future, Sivakami defies tradition and chooses to give him a secular education. While her choice ensures that Vairum fulfills his promise, it also sets Sivakami on a collision course with him. Vairum, fatherless in childhood, childless as an adult, rejects the caste identity that is his mothers mainstay, twisting their fates in fascinating and unbearable ways.
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