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Genre/Form: | Historical fiction History Fiction Novels |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Alka Joshi |
ISBN: | 9780778309451 0778309452 |
OCLC Number: | 1129196073 |
Notes: | 24 unnumbered pages at the back of the book includes: acknowledgments, glossary of terms, the story of henna, the caste system in India, and recipes. |
Description: | 342 pages ; 24 cm |
Responsibility: | Alka Joshi. |
Abstract:
For fans of Balli Kaur Jaswal's Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows and Thrity Umrigar's The Space Between Us, Alka Josh's The Henna Artist by is lushly-rendered, emotional book club fiction set in post-Raj 1950s Jaipur about a young woman struggling to shape her own destiny in a world pivoting between the traditional and the modern.
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