Description
A young, Western-educated Indian woman looks back on a pivotal year as India moves from colonial rule toward self-government, tracing how love, belonging, and cultural expectation shape the life she chooses. Told in a vivid first-person voice, her memories circle around family, relationships, and the quiet tensions between “home” as tradition and “home” as a self-made identity. As she revisits the influence of outsiders and the stories they bring, she confronts what is truly lasting—community, intimacy, and the everyday wisdom that outlasts novelty. With its intimate narrative style and clear focus on cultural conflict, this early novel by Santha Rama Rau captures the emotional cost of growing up between worlds and the hard-won clarity of finding one’s place.
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paperback
New York : Harper
Published Jan 1, 1956
270 pages
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First Published
1956
Language
eng
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