| #1510713 in Books | 2004-03-02 | 2004-03-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.18 x.66 x5.50l,.53 | File type: PDF | 304 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Carmen's Review|By Carmen Scholl|Badami creates mood and vision with musical, poetic prose and is able to draw the reader into her world of early 20th century India. I heartily recommend this book to anyone who desires to explore cultures and language, and is willing to struggle a bit with some foreign words and phrases (usually but not always explained), and changing voice (s|From Library Journal|Originally published in India in 1996, this first novel is Badami's second to appear in the United States, after The Hero's Walk (LJ 3/15/01). Here she relates the story of Saroja, as told by her daughter Kamini and by Saroja herself. Kamini
Growing up in India, Kamini often found herself struggling to be noticed: noticed by her beloved, storytelling father, whose position as a railway officer took him away from home for long stretches of time; and noticed by her distant, distracted mother, Saroja, whose biting remarks earned her the nickname Tamarind Woman—and whose frequent disappearances while her husband was away led to whispers of dalliances and affairs.
Now Kamini is grown, living in Canad...
You easily download any file type for your device.Tamarind Woman (Ballantine Reader's Circle) | Anita Rau Badami. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
