Tell A Thousand Lies Women's Fiction Set In India【電子書籍】[ Rasana Atreya ]

＜p＞＜strong＞A girl trapped by the colour of her skin. A politician desperate to regain power. A family ripped apart.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞16-year-old Pullamma, with her dark skin, has resigned herself to a limited future in her remote South Indian village. For this reason, she’s obliged her old-fashioned grandmother by not doing well in school. She’s also resigned to remaining unwed. For with three girls in the family, there’s simply not enough dowry to go around.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Soon a wedding alliance arrives for her oldest sisterーa fair-skinned beauty. There’s great rejoicing in their household. And why not? The prospective father-in-law is the right-hand man of an important politician. As Pullamma helps ready the house for the bride-viewing that precedes any arranged marriageーby washing the cow, by stringing flowers along doorwaysーshe prays for the alliance to go through.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Then something happens. Something so inconceivable, it will shape Pullamma’s future in ways she couldn’t have unimagine．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る