Two Virgins

by Kamala Markandaya

Book Overview

She tossed and turned, her body an alien creature full of strange, strong impulses beyond her control. Saroja lives in a village with her parents, aunt and beautiful elder sister Lalitha. Saroja s... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451063120
• ISBN13: 9780451063120
• Release Date: February 1975
• Publisher: Signet Book

Customer Reviews

Gradual maturing of two sisters in village India-Wonderful

In this book "Two Virgins" Kamala Markandaya takes us into the lives of two sisters who gradually bloom and are on the threshhold of physical maturity set in the background of post Independence India. Kamala navigates very deftly into the lives of Saroja and Lalitha and makes her characters breathe so realistically that we will not forget them once we read the book.All readers of feminist novels will enjoy this book and it is one of her finest works.

One of her best

This coming of age story of two sisters in India is one of Kamala Markandaya's finest works, and my favorite of hers. It is a story of awakening, exploring a time when a child, through events beyond her control, loses her childhood naivete, descriptively termed as her "bubble". An adult book with a timeless story that explores childhood, womanhood, poverty, abortion, prostitution and humanity in a chaotic world.