Water

Bapsi Sidhwa

earliest edition we have, 2006 Key Porter Books, 2006 237 pages

"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 beau...

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Water edition · 2013 · Milkweed Editions · 240 pages · 9781571319166
Water paperback · 2006 · Penguin Books · 208 pages · 9780670999071
Water edition · 2006 · Key Porter Books · 237 pages
Water paperback · 2006 · Milkweed Editions · 240 pages · 9781571310569

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