Description
In this early novel, Sarita returns to her father’s home and, in the quiet aftermath of family loss, begins to unravel the life that shaped her—her stifling small-town upbringing, a domineering mother, and a marriage to the charismatic poet Mahohar. As she moves between memory and the present, Sarita confronts the friction between patriarchal expectations and her own modern yearnings for autonomy, dignity, and self-definition. The story explores how women negotiate identity within the home and society, and how love, silence, and power can both bind and fracture a life. With Shashi Deshpande’s incisive, psychologically attuned style, the novel offers a searching, intimate portrait of a woman learning to see her past clearly—and to claim a future without fear.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin
Published Jan 1, 1990
222 pages
ISBN: 9780140145984
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First Published
1980
Language
eng
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