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Also by Sujata Massey:

The Star from Calcutta, March 2026
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
The Mistress of Bhatia House, May 2024
Trade Paperback / e-Book
The Mistress of Bhatia House, July 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
The Bombay Prince, February 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
The Satapur Moonstone, May 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
The Widows of Malabar Hill, November 2018
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
The Widows of Malabar Hill, January 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
The Sleeping Dictionary, August 2013
Paperback / e-Book
The Typhoon Lover, September 2006
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THE SLEEPING DICTIONARY
By: Sujata Massey

Gallery Books
August 2013
On Sale: August 20, 2013
528 pages
ISBN: 1476703167
EAN: 9781476703169
Kindle: B00BSBR01W
Paperback / e-Book
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Romance | Multicultural

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.