Of Marriageable Age
A spellbinding story of forbidden love. Three continents, three decades, three very disparate lives:Savitri, intuitive and charismatic, grows up among the servants of a pre-war English household in Madras. But the traditional customs of her Brahmin family clash against English upper-class...
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A spellbinding story of forbidden love. Three continents, three decades, three very disparate lives:Savitri, intuitive and charismatic, grows up among the servants of a pre-war English household in Madras. But the traditional customs of her Brahmin family clash against English upper-class prejudice, threatening her love for the privileged son of the house.Nataraj, raised a
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ISBN:
9781909490239
Publisher: Bookouture
Pages no: 548
Edition language: English
An orphan boy adopted by an English doctor, living near Madras, in the Southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu: Nataraj. A headstrong teenager, daughter of an Indian lawyer in Georgetown, British Guiana: Sarojini. Back in Madras, earlier, a cook's daughter, of Brahmin descent but a servant girl in a...