The Strawberry Patch

By Nonda Chatterjee

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143032380
• ISBN13: 9780143032380
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.4" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

The Strawberry Patch: a glimpse of India

The Strawberry Patch belies its pastoral title. It is a searing account of the lives of both middle class and poor rural women in India,who face socially sanctioned oppression and natural calamity with courage and resilience born of cultural values similar to those of the great Hindu epics of Ramayana and Mahabharata. It also affords a nuanced glimpse at lives of Indians during the Raj; the tricky negotiations ordinary people made to survive and maintain their dignity within a fundamentally unjust colonial rule, and sometimes a humorous look at the soft underbelly of Empire. The final impact of the book is amazingly uplifting, despite the sometimes grim options the characters are faced with. One senses a deeply compassionate, historically informed and profoundly truthful story-teller behind these tales.