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Abingdon Press
March 2012
On Sale: March 1, 2012
Featuring: Shridula; Ashish
352 pages
ISBN: 1426709099
EAN: 9781426709098
Kindle: B00711WDCO
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Women's Fiction
India: 1946. “Blessing!” Ashish murmured. “Such a name for a
man cursed by a million gods!” For forty-eight years, his
family toiled as slaves in the fields of the high-caste Lal
family, and all because of one small debt. Ashish and his
family knew nothing of the hatred for the British seething
around them, nor of the struggle for independence that
simmered throughout India. At fifty-four, Ashish was old and
worn out. His wife had died long before—how many years, he
had no idea. Even though he had four sons to work beside him in the
fields, every day was a struggle to survive. Sometimes his
only daughter worked, too, but she also cooked and cleaned
and kept the clothes in repair. His wife had named the girl
Shridula—Blessings. “Perhaps the name will bring you more
fortune than it brought me,” Ashish told his daughter. His
words proved to be prophetic in ways he could never have
imagined. And when the flames of revolt brought independence
to India, they seared change into the families of Ashish and
Lal.
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