In 1938 colonial India, 8-year-old Chuyia is widowed and sent to a home where Hindu widows must live out their lives in penitence; there her feisty presence affects the lives of the other residents, including a beautiful young widow who falls in love with a Gandhian idealist.
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ISBN: 9781552637531 (pbk.)
ISBN: 1552637530 (pbk.)
Physical Description:237 p. ; cm.print
Publisher:Toronto : Key Porter Books, c2006.
General Note: LSC; 21.95."Based on the film by Deepa Mehta."