by Kamala Markandaya · Unionsverlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783293200197
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«Eine Handvoll Reis» is the novel by Kamala Markandaya, published by Unionsverlag in paperback (352 pages, in German).
Ravi leaves his village in rural India and arrives in the city, where he scrapes by with precarious jobs and petty theft. Taken in by Apu, a tailor, and in love with his daughter Nalini, he tries to leave crime behind, but poverty and labour exploitation corner him. The novel portrays social inequality and the search for dignity in the big city.
German edition of «A Handful of Rice», a novel originally published in 1966; this Unionsverlag edition is from 1999.
For readers of Indian fiction and stories about social struggle and survival in urban environments.
Kamala Markandaya, pseudonym of Kamala Purnaiya, married name Kamala Taylor, was a British Indian novelist and journalist. She has been called "one of the most important Indian novelists writing in English".
