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An enchanting story of family life that is a dance of love and grief and rebirth set on a gorgeous island in the Indian Ocean
The island is filled with exotic flora and fauna and perfumed air. A large family compound is presided over by a benign, stalwart grandmother. There is a very tall South Asian heroine with the astonishing un-Indian name of Meterling, who has found love at last in the shape of a short, round, elegant Englishman who wears white suits. There are also numerous aunts, uncles and young cousins “ among them Mina, grown now, and narrating this story of a marriage ceremony that ends with a widowed bride who, in the midst of her grief, discovers she is pregnant.
While enjoying their own games and growing-up pains, Mina and her young cousins follow every nuance of gossip, trying to puzzle out what is going on with their favourite aunt, particularly when the groom`s cousin arrives from England and begins to woo her. As Meterling “ torn between Eastern and Western ideas of love and family, duty and loyalty “ struggles to make a new life, we become as entranced with this family, its adventures and complications, as Mina is.
And with her, we celebrate a time and place where, although sometimes difficult, life was for the most part as sweet as honey.
ISBN 9789350296332
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Pages : 288
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