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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-57131-056-9
Pages: 240
Publish Date: Dec, 2006
Genre: Fiction

Water

BY Bapsi Sidhwa

Based on the motion picture by critically acclaimed filmmaker Deepa Mehta.

Set in 1938 colonial India against the backdrop of Mahatma Gandhi’s rise to power, Water follows the life of eight-year-old Chuyia, a child-bride who is abandoned at a widow’s ashram after the demise of her fifty-year-old husband. There, she is forced to live out a life of penitence until death.

Unwilling to accept her fate, Chuyia becomes a catalyst for change in the lives of the widows. When her friend, the beautiful widow-prostitute Kalyani, falls in love with a young, upper-class Gandhian idealist, the forbidden affair boldly defies Hindu tradition and threatens to undermine the delicate balance of power within the ashram.

Water offers a riveting examination of the lives of widows in colonial India. Ultimately it is a haunting and lyrical story of love, faith, and redemption. The publication of Water coincides with the national release of Deepa Mehta’s film of the same name, distribution by Fox Searchlight.

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