Moth / Melody Razak.
Momo rauemi: TextKaiwhakaputa: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Whakaahuatanga: 346 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781474619240
- 823.92 23
Momo tuemi | Tauwāhi onāianei | Kohinga | Tau karanga | Tūnga | Rā oti | Waeherepae | Ngā puringa tuemi | |
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Fiction | Hāwera LibraryPlus Fiction | Fiction | RAZA (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below)) | Wātea | i2212167 | |||
Fiction | Waverley LibraryPlus Fiction | Fiction | RAZA (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below)) | Wātea | i2211975 |
Delhi, 1946. Ma and Bappu are liberal intellectuals teaching at the local university. Their fourteen year-old daughter - precocious, headstrong Alma - is soon to be married to a young man training to be a doctor: Alma is mostly interested in the wedding shoes and in spinning wild stories about evil spirits for her beloved younger sister Roop, a restless child obsessed with death. Times are bad for girls in India. The long-awaited independence from British rule is heralding a new era of hope, but also of anger and distrust: political unrest is brewing, threatening to unravel the rich tapestry of Delhi - a city where different cultures, religions and traditions have co-existed for centuries. When Partition happens and the British Raj is fractured overnight, the wonderful family we have come to love is violently torn apart, and its members - Ma and Bappu, Alma and Roop - are forced to find new and increasingly desperate ways to survive. But the resilience of the human spirit is an extraordinary thing...
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