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Spanning the lifetime of one woman (1896-1962), The Toss of a Lemon brings readers intimately into a Brahmin household, into an India in the midst of social and political upheaval. Married at ten, widowed at eighteen, left with two children, Sivakami must wear widow's whites, shave her head, and touch no one from dawn to dusk. She is not allowed to remarry, and in the next sixty years she ventures outside her family compound only three times. She...
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It is Bombay in 1971, the year India went to war over what was to become Bangladesh. A hard-working bank clerk, Gustad Noble is a devoted family man whose modest life begins unraveling-- his young daughter falls ill, his promising son defies his father's ambitions for him ... One day, he receives a letter from an old friend, asking for his help. Noble finds himself unwittingly drawn into a dangerous network of deception and becomes caught in a political...
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