Gallery Books
August 2013
On Sale: August 20, 2013
528 pages ISBN: 1476703167 EAN: 9781476703169 Kindle: B00BSBR01W Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
From an award-winning novelist, a stunning portrait of late
Raj India—a sweeping saga and a love story set against a
background of huge political and cultural upheaval.
Sujata Massey’s ten novels, about a young Asian-American
woman in Japan, have won numerous literary awards. Now she
tells a whole new story, set on a brand-new stage.
The term “sleeping dictionary” was coined for young Indian
women who slept with British men and educated them in the
ways of India. Set between 1925 and the end of World War II,
The Sleeping Dictionary is the story of Kamala, born to a
peasant family in West Bengal, who makes her way to Calcutta
of the 1930s. Haunted by a forbidden love, she is caught
between the raging independence movement and the British
colonial society she finds herself inhabiting. This portrait
of late Raj India is both a saga and a passionate love story.
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