Showing posts with label Kamala Markandaya. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kamala Markandaya. Show all posts

13 October 2016

Review #534: Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”

----Leo Tolstoy


Kamala Purnaiya Taylor, a.k.a, Kamala Markandaya, the late Indian internationally bestselling author, had penned a terrific yet extremely honest tale of a woman's struggling yet endearing life right after India's independence in her book, Nectar in a Sieve which marks as a pioneering book in Indian literature, that outlines the importance of a woman's simplicity, her sacrifices, her unconditional love for her family, her dying desires, her struggles during the times of poverty and her intelligence in rural India.