Howrah Station! Kamala arrives here by rail when she finally reaches Calcutta in 1937. The Marble Palace, a wealthy family home, can still be visited today. The Hooghly River’s holy water is used for bathing and cooking. Lewes’ cocktail party.Ĭhowringhee, the district for elegant shopping and entertainment. Kamala comes to hectic Burrabazar to find what’s needed for Mr. Many thanks to the South Asia Section of The University of Pennsylvania’s Van Pelt Library for sharing some of their archived treasures, Calcutta 1945, An American Military Photo Album. As India struggles to throw off imperial rule, Kamala uses her hard-won skills-for secrecy, languages, and reading the unspoken gestures of those around her-to fight for her country’s freedom and her own happiness.ī Amazon Apple Books Audible Barnes & Noble Books-A-Million Kobo But although success and even love seem within reach, she remains trapped by what she is… and is not. Eventually, she lands in Calcutta, renames herself Kamala, and creates a new life rich in books and friends. Her private dreams almost die when she arrives in Kharagpur and is recruited into a secretive, decadent world. As a maidservant in a British boarding school, Pom is renamed Sarah and discovers her gift for languages.
In 1930, a great ocean wave blots out a Bengali village, leaving only one survivor, a young girl. YOU ASK FOR MY NAME, THE REAL ONE, AND I CANNOT TELL. Recommend the novel to readers of Arundhati Roy and Bharati Mukherjee.”Ī stunning portrait of late Raj India-a sweeping saga and a love story set against a background of huge political and cultural upheaval. Clever Kamala is front and center throughout, as Massey builds her coming-of-age tale around India as it moves toward independence, effectively combining personal narrative with the grandeur of a sweeping historical epic… The Sleeping Dictionary, an utterly engrossing tale of love, espionage, betrayal, and survival, is historical fiction at its best, accessible to all audiences. The setting gives new life to the familiar story of an orphan girl struggling to make her way in a cruel world. The award-winning author of the Rei Shimura mysteries turns to 1930s–40s India, with the British in control of the colony as Gandhi and others fight for freedom. “Trapped by her past and uncertain of her future, the peasant girl Kamala’s journey toward independence-personal and political-unfolds in this riveting historical novel. Published as The City of Palaces in India
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