Nectar in a Sieve

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Summary: It's hard to find a Good Book!
Review: As a teenager it is very hard to find any book enjoyable and this one really beat the rest of them. Rukmani Shows her strenght as a woman in our life today and how she over pass all her problems and never gave up. This is an interesting and co,pelling book.

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Summary: Excellent!!! A must-read.
Review: Touches your heart and soul. Rukmani and her husband embody to me, the true meaning of love, a relationship far different from the western representations of love .

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Summary: I hated this book so much, it was very boring and slow.
Review: I thought that the plot of this book was very slow. My school assigned it for over the summer and it took me the whole summer to read it and now that school started I have to do a project on it and i cant remember how the book ended.

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Summary: well the plot was flabergastingly appauling
Review: all I have to say is that I am disgusted that I payed 5.99 for this book! (I want my money back)

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Summary: Great Book! A must read for well adjusted people.
Review: In my opinion this is a great book for someone of any age. It is powerful because most people in america do not understand other cultures and assume they are very similair to own own, maybe Kamala can help change that.

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Summary: Point less reading.
Review: This book was given to me as an assignment in school that i had to buy my self.Lets put it this way they should have to pay me to read it. The book is terrible i suggest you don't read.

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Summary: Terrible!!!
Review: My english teacher assigned this book to our class before skool let out. I thought, great another borin book, and boy was i right!! From the minute i read the first few pages in the book, i already was completly lost. It was soo unbelievably boring that i couldn't even finish it. The only good thing about it was that the chapters were really short. I advise all to steer clear of this LAME book.

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Summary: Very interesting
Review: This book was a great quick read. I had to read it for school and i just loved it. The author had a great writing style that made it hard to put the book down. It was sad but very insightful. I recommend this book highly

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Summary: A depressing yet true story of life's hardships
Review: This book was very good. It provides a look at a world which we cannot relate to. A world where everyday is a struggle to survive. It also teaches us not to take what we have for granted because there are others out there with literally nothing. I recommend this book as not only a incite into Indian life but a look at reality and life as a whole.

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Summary: A story of India.
Review: This is the first novel of Ms. Markandaya, an Indian author living in England (she has written at least nine other novels). This novel, written in the first person, presents the life of a peasant woman living in a remote Hindu village in India. Since the village is never named nor is a year ever mentioned in the book, a number of commenters have suggested that the book represents the story of India herself, arising out of feudalism and through industrialization. One of the characters is an English physician, Kennington (called Kenny by the narrator), who often appears to exhibit compassion for the people yet continues to fail to understand them or their culture (nor does he ever appear to make a serious effort to learn). This is a criticism many have given toward the British rule of India. The book begins with the narrator, Rukmani, at an old age and near death. She begins her story with her wedding. She was the third daughter of a village head and, at the age of twelve, is married off to a tenant rice farmer named Nathan. Through births, deaths, prosperous times, and devastating times (such as times of famine and when they lose their farm and are forced to travel to the city with nothing to call their own), she and Nathan remain close and truly bonded together. Even at the time of her own death approaching, she still sees him (her husband had passed away earlier); he has never left her. The book also illustrates the importance of family and the support one should always get from family. It is an uplifting history of a poor, but intelligent, honest, and noble Indian woman.