Toronto:
TSAR Publ.
,
2005
,
293 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Warriar, Nalini |
| Jahr: | 2005 |
| Maße: | 22,5 cm |
| ISBN: | 1894770242 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| The book tells the story of Sita who is born in the South of India. Her parents arrange her marriage with an Indian engineer living in Canada. Sita moves to her husband Anup in Quebec, where she soon learns that her role is to be that of token wife and housekeeper - not, as she had hoped, that of beloved companion. The shock of Anup's near-total avoidance of her is compounded by the strangeness of Quebec's people and landscape. Sita's submissiveness dissipates with the birth of their first child, and the transfer of her attention from her husband to her son aggravates Anup's emotional abuse. After 20 years of marriage, during which time she has built a successful career and raised two children virtually alone, Sita still hesitates to make that final gesture of formally severing her ties with Anup. It is only after he resorts to physically punishing her that she musters the courage to forget shame and divorce him. One might expect that with this liberation, Sita will be able to achieve true happiness, and indeed Warriar leads us to believe in the possibility. Sita makes a comfortable home for herself on the shores of a lake, and begins a romance with the compassionate - and passionate - Kiran. Yet just as Sita lets down her defenses, Warriar causes a most gruesome tragedy to descend. | |
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