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India, 1955- as the scars of Partition are just beginning to heal, seventeen-year-old Meera sits enraptured- in the spotlight is Dev, singing a song so infused with passion that it arouses in her the first flush of erotic longing. But when Meera's reverie comes true, it does not lead to the fairy-tale marriage she imagined. Meera has no choice but to obey her in-laws, tolerate Dev's drunken night-time fumblings, even observe the most arduous of Hindu fasts for his longevity. A move to Bombay seems at first like a fresh start, but soon that dream turns to ashes. It is only when their son is born that things change and Meera is ready to unleash the passion she has suppressed for so long.
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The Age of Shiva, Manil Suri
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- 2009
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- Title
- The Age of Shiva
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Manil Suri
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Paperbacks
- Released
- 2009
- ISBN10
- 0747596395
- ISBN13
- 9780747596394
- Category
- World prose
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- India, 1955- as the scars of Partition are just beginning to heal, seventeen-year-old Meera sits enraptured- in the spotlight is Dev, singing a song so infused with passion that it arouses in her the first flush of erotic longing. But when Meera's reverie comes true, it does not lead to the fairy-tale marriage she imagined. Meera has no choice but to obey her in-laws, tolerate Dev's drunken night-time fumblings, even observe the most arduous of Hindu fasts for his longevity. A move to Bombay seems at first like a fresh start, but soon that dream turns to ashes. It is only when their son is born that things change and Meera is ready to unleash the passion she has suppressed for so long.