Diversity: Other Cultures
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TITLE & AUTHOR
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SYNOPSIS
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Bend In The River
NAIPAUL, V |
Salim, a young Indian man, moves to a town on a bend in
the river of a recently independent nation in Africa. As Salim strives to
establish his business, he comes to be closely involved with the fluid and
dangerous politics of the newly created state, the remnants of the old
regime clashing inevitably with the new. |
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Homeless Bird *
WHELAN, G |
13-year-old Koley enters into an ill-fated arranged
marriage and suffers the destiny dictated by India's traditions.
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Nectar In A Sieve
MARKANDAYA, K |
The story of a simple woman in a village in India who,
married as a child bride, worked with her husband to wrest a living from
the ravaged land.
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Shabanu: Daughter Of The Wind*
STAPLES, S |
The second daughter of a Pakistani family, Shabanu has
been brought up with more freedom than most Muslim girls. Should she
listen to the stirrings of her own heart when her family insists on an
arranged marriage?
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Sister Of My Heart
DIVAKANI, C |
Since their birth in India, cousins Sudha and Anjou have
been bonded in ways even their mothers cannot comprehend. When a dark
family secret suddenly shatters this connection, the two travel different
paths until a tragedy reminds them that they only have each other to turn
to.
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