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On the eve of her wedding in 1960s Trinidad, Vasti discovers that her arranged marriage is to the rapist she saw through a curtain of sugarcane stems 12 years earlier. Will she speak out, defying convention and thereby shaming her family, or succumb to tradition and silently submit to her fate? Terrified, she collapses and dreams the parallel story that runs through the novel where the three surviving wives of an 18th-century king in northern India are about to climb upon a burning pyre to fulfill the suttee, the traditional Hindu widow-burning custom practiced in India for hundreds of years.

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On the eve of her wedding in 1960s Trinidad, Vasti discovers that her arranged marriage is to the rapist she saw through a curtain of sugarcane stems 12 years earlier. Will she speak out, defying convention and thereby shaming her family, or succumb to tradition and silently submit to her fate? Terrified, she collapses and dreams the parallel story that runs through the novel where the three surviving wives of an 18th-century king in northern India are about to climb upon a burning pyre to fulfill the suttee, the traditional Hindu widow-burning custom practiced in India for hundreds of years.
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Autorenporträt
Lakshmi Persaud is an award winning author. Her latest awards are a Life Time Literary Award in 2012 for significant contribution to literature by the National Library and Information Systems Authority, Trinidad and Tobago, and an Honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt) by the University of the West Indies in 2013. Dr Lakshmi Persaud has published five novels, one of which was published in Italian also. Her first book Butterfly in the Wind is now in its sixth print. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.