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Young Lenny Sethi is kept out of school because she suffers from polio. She spends her days with Ayah, her beautiful nanny, visiting with the many admirers that Ayah draws. It is in the company of these working-class characters that Lenny learns about religious differences, religious intolerance, and the blossoming genocidal strife on the eve of Partition.
As she matures, Lenny begins to identify the differences between the Hindus, Moslems, and Sikhs...
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In 1974 when her father leaves New Delhi, India, to seek a job in New York, Ashi, a tomboy at the advanced age of sixteen, feels thwarted in the home of her extended family in Calcutta where she, her mother, and sister must stay, and when her father dies before he can send for them, they must remain with their relatives and observe the old-fashioned traditions that Ashi hates.
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"An epic love story moving from England to India, about the forbidden love between a young Indian doctor and an English midwife. Oxfordshire, 1947. Kit Smallwood, hiding a painful secret and exhausted from nursing soldiers during the Second World War, escapes to Wickam Farm where her friend is setting up a charity sending midwives to the Moonstone Home in South India. Then Kit meets Anto, an Indian doctor finishing his medical training at Oxford....
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Po ucieczce od męża i od życia w zapadłej wsi Lakszmi pokonuje drogę, która ostatecznie doprowadzi ją do Dźajpuru, rozedrganego kolorami i dźwiękami Różowego Miasta, i do pozycji wybitnej hennistki. Jako słynąca z niepowtarzalnych wzorów rozchwytywana artystka i powierniczka kobiet z najwyższych kast poznaje ich najgłębiej skrywane tajemnice, lecz nikomu nie może zdradzić swojej... Zawiść i plotki mogłyby zniszczyć jej reputację...
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