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The Toss of a Lemon
de Viswanathan, Padma
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Like New/Like New
- ISBN 10
- 0151015333
- ISBN 13
- 9780151015337
- Librería
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Westerville, Ohio, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Harcourt, 2008. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. 6x1x9. Books are carefully sealed in waterproof mailers and then boxed to prevent damage during transit.Like new hardback and jacket. Appears unread. Binding is tight and square. No owners' names/labels. Dust jacket is enclosed in a clear protective cover. Text is clean, unmarked. First edition, 1st printing. Full letter line with "A". (Shelf location: G7)
Sinopsis
The year of the marriage proposal, Sivakami is ten. She is neither tall nor short for her age, but she will not grow much more. Her shoulders are narrow but appear solid, as though the blades are fused to protect her heart from the back. She carries herself with an attractive stiffness: her shoulders straight and always aligned. She looks capable of bearing great burdens, not as though born to yoke but perhaps as though born with a yoke within her. Spanning the lifetime of one woman (1896–1962), The Toss of a Lemon brings us intimately into a Brahmin household, into an India we’ve never before seen. Married at ten, widowed at eighteen, left with two children, Sivakami must wear widow’s whites, shave her head, and touch no one from dawn to dusk. She is not allowed to remarry, and in the next sixty years she ventures outside her family compound only three times. She is extremely orthodox in her behavior except for one defiant act: She moves back to her dead husband’s house and village to raise her children. That decision sets the course of her children’s and grandchildren’s lives, twisting their fates in surprising, sometimes heartbreaking ways. Inspired by her grandmother's stories, Padma Viswanathan masterfully brings to life a profoundly exotic yet utterly recognizable family in the midst of social and political upheaval. The Toss of a Lemon is the debut of a major new writer.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Crestview Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 080216
- Título
- The Toss of a Lemon
- Autor
- Viswanathan, Padma
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo Like New
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Like New
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0151015333
- ISBN 13
- 9780151015337
- Editorial
- Harcourt
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2008
- Tamaño
- 6x1x9
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Collecting;
- X weight
- 32 oz
Términos de venta
Crestview Books
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Sobre el vendedor
Crestview Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2004
Westerville, Ohio
Sobre Crestview Books
Crestview Books has a wide selection, concentrating in humanities and liberal arts.
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