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Water {HARDCOVER} (RARE BOOKS)

Water {HARDCOVER} (RARE BOOKS)

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A deeply moving story, elegantly told, with all the assurance of a master M.G. Vassanji

Set in 1938 India against the backdrop of Mahatma Gandhis rise to power, Water follows the life of eight-year-old Chuyia, a child-bride who is abandoned at a widows ashram in Benares after her fifty-year-old husband dies. There, she is expected to spend the rest of her life in penitence.

Unwilling to accept her fate, Chuyia becomes a catalyst for change in the lives of the widows. When her friend, the beautiful widowprostitute Kalyani, falls in love with Narayan, a young, upper-class Gandhian idealist, the affair boldly defies Hindu tradition and threatens to undermine the delicate balance of power within the ashram. Sidhwas sensitive storytelling makes this a novel rich with immortal characters.

Water offers a riveting examination of the lives of widows in colonial India, but ultimately it is a haunting and lyrical story of love, faith and redemption.

In this brilliant work Bapsi Sidhwa adds richness and depth to the beautiful film Water. With her characteristic grace, Sidhwa historicizes the images, lends greater poignancy to faces and provides speech where the film must leave the women speechless. Sara Suleri Usedyear

PRAISE FOR DEEPA MEHTAS WATER

A magnificent film! Salman Rushdie

Water is a triumph Time

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