What the body remembers
Baldwin, Shauna Singh
What the body remembers / Shauna Singh Baldwin - First edition - 515 pages : map
Roop is a sixteen-year-old village girl in the Punjab region of undivided India in 1937 whose family is respectable but poor -- her father is deep in debt and her mother is dead. Innocent and lovely, yet afraid she may not marry well, she is elated when she learns she is to become the second wife of a wealthy Sikh landowner, Sardarji, whose first wife, Satya, has failed to bear him any children. Roop trusts that the strong-willed Satya will treat her as a sister, but their relationship becomes far more ominous and complicated than expected.
0676972217
Sikhs--History--India--Punjab--20th century--Fiction
India--Social life and customs--Fiction
Historical fiction
Fic
What the body remembers / Shauna Singh Baldwin - First edition - 515 pages : map
Roop is a sixteen-year-old village girl in the Punjab region of undivided India in 1937 whose family is respectable but poor -- her father is deep in debt and her mother is dead. Innocent and lovely, yet afraid she may not marry well, she is elated when she learns she is to become the second wife of a wealthy Sikh landowner, Sardarji, whose first wife, Satya, has failed to bear him any children. Roop trusts that the strong-willed Satya will treat her as a sister, but their relationship becomes far more ominous and complicated than expected.
0676972217
Sikhs--History--India--Punjab--20th century--Fiction
India--Social life and customs--Fiction
Historical fiction
Fic