Nectar In A Sieve

by Kamala Markandaya, Alastair Niven (Afterword)

Overview

Married as a child bride to Nathan, a tenant farmer she had never met, Rukmani works side by side in the fields with her husband to wrest a living from a land ravaged by droughts, monsoons, and insects. With fortitude and courage, she fights poverty and disaster.

 

Written over 70 years ago, Nectar in a Sieve is as relevant now as when it was first published. The story of Rukmani and Nathan is the story of many Indian farmers yesterday and today. This new edition introduces a new generation of readers to a tragic tale made all the more relevant as temperatures soar in India and working the land becomes more and more challenging.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781913109271
Publisher:	HopeRoad Publishing.com
Publication date:	07/13/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	529,742
File size:	713 KB

About the Author

Kamala Markandaya (1924 - 2004) was born in Mysore, India. She studied history at Madras University and later worked for a small progressive magazine before moving to London in 1948 in pursuit of a career in journalism. There she began writing her novels; Nectar in a Sieve, her first novel published in 1954, was an international best-seller; translated into 17 languages. Reviewing the republication of The Nowhere Man in 2019, Booker prize-winner Bernadine Evaristo wrote; 'For the last 20 years of her life, Kamala Markandaya couldn't get published and went out of print. Generations of readers lost out in reading this gem. Now I hope it will find its place in literary history.'
Alastair Niven LVO OBE was born in Edinburgh and now lives in London. He taught at the Universities of Ghana, Leeds and Stirling, before becoming Director General of the Africa Centre. He later headed the Literature department of the Arts Council of Great Britain and of the British Council. For twelve years he was Principal of Cumberland Lodge, a royal charitable foundation in Windsor. He was President of English PEN from 2003 to 2007 and has twice been a judge of the Booker Prize. He is an Honorary Fellow of Harris Manchester College, Oxford, and also an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, which in 2021 bestowed on him its highest award, the Benson Medal. He has written two books on D.H. Lawrence and been published widely on Indian and post-colonial writing.