Ordeal by Fire

By Rita Nayar

Fiction. Asian American Studies. Born in Rajasthan, India, Rita leaves her native country to live with her diplomat father in exotic places abroad. Her innocent, happy, and sheltered childhood is... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1894770102
• ISBN13: 9781894770101
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: TSAR Publications
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.7" x 0.4" x 5.7"

Customer Reviews

Brave revelation

Rita has shared a true life story. It is a brave revelation of the many twists of life. There are many lesson one picks up througout the book. To look at life with a broad, unselfish view while valuing every drop in the ocean of time is one. Every life event has a purpose, and one must have faith in the way life unfolds itself. Her presentation is truly pictureque --from Rajasthan in India to Africa and multi-cultural Canada.

Survival and Sacrifice

Wow! An amazing story of survival and sacrifice. This extraordinarily personal story is written in a simple yet eloquent style that provides a window directly into the heart of a woman dealing with unbearable emotional confines in her life.It is both an awful story of an oppressive and controlling man and awesome story of a woman's struggle for emotional and spiritual freedom for herself and her children. And it is the story of an Indian woman's struggle to reconcile her own identity within traditional Indian culture and with family expectations about her role in marriage and in life.Read this book if you want to be astounded...and then inspired!

A MESSAGE FROM THE AUTHOR

Hi! I am Rita Nayar. I am writing a message here to provide an email address to those of you who wish to get in touch with me!It is rita_nayar@hotmail.comPlease do write as I would love to get your thoughts, comments, feedback or simply an acknowledgement of my book.

FATEFULLY YOURS

An excellent memoir, Rita Nayar has described very vividly the picturesque hometown in Rajasthan, India, giving a glimpse of her childhood. The book reveals the journey of the girl-child, a phenomenon specific to the culture, the hurdles at every stage in a woman's life and the skills one needs to counter this. Thelanguage is simple, at times poetic and very descriptive. The narration which takes a severe turn at the end of the novel portrays a very sensitive, warm human being who has elevated herself inspite of the hurdles that come across in daily life.The novel is gripping from start to end and gives the audience a flavour of Indian culture and its values.The book is well-written and I look forward to reading the next one!

Suffering and Redemption

This is a true story of love, abuse, suffering, tragedy, forgiveness, redemption and closure. When I began reading this book, I was not able to put it down until I had finished it.This is a memoir. If you are living through, or have lived through, family violence, or simply know someone in that situation, then this book may be very helpful. It grew out of Rita's own need to come to terms with these horrific events in her life. She has since also become active in providing support and counseling to others who are suffering or have suffered domestic abuse.Be warned: the violence that the author and her family endured is graphically described. But it is not gratuitous violence. The violence was real, personal and even fatal for some members of Rita's family. That it occurred in a middle class family in a middle class neighborhood in a major North American city provides a hint of the pain that may be only one friend or family away from each of us.