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Sister India Paperback - 2002
by Peggy Payne
Hailed by critics, this is a novel of fear and awakening, of culture and chaos, of violence and redemption . . . and of the mysterious Madame Natraja, an expatriate from South Carolina settled in the holy city of Varanasi near the banks of the Ganges River, and unprepared for the course her life is about to take.
Summary
The Lonely Planet recommends the Saraswati Guest House, and meeting Madame Natraja, "a one-woman blend of East and West," as well worth a side trip. Over the course of a weekend, several guests turn up, shocked to encounter a three-hundred-some-pound, surly white woman in a sari. Then a series of Hindu-Muslim murders leads to a citywide curfew, and they unwittingly become her captives. So begins a period of days blending into nights as Natraja and her Indian cook become entangled in a web of religious violence, and their guests fall under the spell of this ancient kingdom--at once enthralled and repelled by the begging children, the public funeral pyres, the holy men bathing in the Ganges at dawn.
This is a traveler's tale, a story about the strange chemistry that develops from unexpected intimacies on foreign ground. And Peggy Payne's extraordinary talent vividly conjures up the smells of the perfume market, the rhythms of holy men chanting at dawn, the claustrophobic feel of this ancient city's tiny lanes, and the magic of the setting sun over the holy Ganges. For anyone who has harbored a secret desire to go to India and be transformed, Sister India, called "mesmerizing" by Gail Harris and "a modern version of E. M. Forster's classic A Passage to India" by Dan Wakefield, takes you on this journey without ever leaving home.
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- Title Sister India
- Author Peggy Payne
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1ST THUS.
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Adult Hc/Tr, New York
- Date 2002-02-05
- ISBN 9781573229104 / 1573229105
- Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
- Dimensions 8.04 x 5.2 x 0.84 in (20.42 x 13.21 x 2.13 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Indian
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
“Payne captures an outsider’s sense of wonder.” –Boston Herald
“Like the city that inspired it, Sister India is complex, crowded, spiritual, blood-stained, and hypnotic.” –Wilmington Sunday Star-News
“A poetic invocation of contemporary India as well as of the human spirit. With its insights into clashing cultures, it deserves comparison as a modern version of E. M. Forster’s classic A Passage to India.” –Dan Wakefield, author of How Do We Know When It’s God?
“Sister India is that rarity, an utterly original novel. It is both profound and mesmerizing.” –Lee Smith, author of Saving Grace
Citations
- New York Times, 02/10/2002, Page 24
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