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02065aam a2200373 a 4500 001 143C2FA65A9311E08B7E6CB06AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20110330010052 008 060221s2006 mnu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2006005976 020 $a 9781571310569 020 $a 1571310568 (pbk. : acid-free paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)64289178 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d BAKER $d IXA $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d A7U $d SILO 043 $a a-ii--- 050 00 $a PR9540.9.S53 $b W38 2006 100 1 $a Sidhwa, Bapsi. 245 1 $a Water : $b a novel based on the film by Deepa Mehta / $c Bapsi Sidhwa. 250 $a 1st American ed. 260 $a Minneapolis, Minn. : $b Milkweed Editions, $c 2006. 300 $a 237 p. ; $c 21 cm. 520 1 $a "Set in 1938 colonial India against the backdrop of Mahatma Gandhi's rise to power, Water follows the life of eight-year-old Chuyia, a child-bride who is abandoned at a widow's ashram after the demise of her fifty-year-old husband. There, she is forced to live out a life of penitence until death." "Unwilling to accept her fate, Chuyia becomes a catalyst for change in the lives of the widows. When her friend, the beautiful widow-prostitute Kalyani, falls in love with a young, upper-class Gandhian idealist, the forbidden affair boldly defies Hindu tradition and threatens to undermine the delicate balance of power within the ashram." "Water offers an examination of the lives of widows in colonial India, but ultimately it is a haunting and lyrical story of love, faith and redemption."--BOOK JACKET. 650 0 $a Widows $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Ashrams $v Fiction. 651 0 $a India $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Women $z India $v Fiction. 655 0 $a Psychological fiction. 856 42 $3 Publisher description $u http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0712/2006005976-d.html 941 $a 3 952 $l N2AX314 $d 20210728015336.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171227034646.0 952 $l XJPC657 $d 20150214081812.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=143C2FA65A9311E08B7E6CB06AFF544E 994 $a C0 $b DIVInitiate Another SILO Locator Search