It is 1944 in India and Nimita Khosla yearns to attend university to become an engineer, but her parents want a different life for her. As she accepts her fate and marries, religious upheaval is splitting the country and forcing her family to find a new home.
In 2014, her granddaughter, molecular biologist Nimita Sachdev, escapes India to run away from the prospect of an arranged marriage. Staking out a future in Singapore, she faces rising anger against immigrants and uncertainty about her new home.
© 2018 by Akshita Nanda. Published in paper format in Singapore by Epigram Books, recorded by Storyside 2019.
© 2019 Storyside (Lydbog): 9789178897483
© 2019 Epigram Books (E-bog): 9789814785778
Release date
Lydbog: 6. december 2019
E-bog: 1. januar 2019
It is 1944 in India and Nimita Khosla yearns to attend university to become an engineer, but her parents want a different life for her. As she accepts her fate and marries, religious upheaval is splitting the country and forcing her family to find a new home.
In 2014, her granddaughter, molecular biologist Nimita Sachdev, escapes India to run away from the prospect of an arranged marriage. Staking out a future in Singapore, she faces rising anger against immigrants and uncertainty about her new home.
© 2018 by Akshita Nanda. Published in paper format in Singapore by Epigram Books, recorded by Storyside 2019.
© 2019 Storyside (Lydbog): 9789178897483
© 2019 Epigram Books (E-bog): 9789814785778
Release date
Lydbog: 6. december 2019
E-bog: 1. januar 2019
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