Can you hear the nightbird call?
Can you hear the nightbird call?
By
:
Badami, Anita Rau, 1961-
Publication Date
:
2006
Subject Term
:
Canadian fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Summary
:
Leela Bhat, born to a German mother and a Hindu father, is doomed to walk the earth as a "half-and-half." Leela’s childhood in Bangalore is scarred by her in-between identity and by the great unhappiness of her mother, Rosa, an outcast in their conservative Hindu home. Years after Rosa’s shadowy death, Leela has learned to deal with her in-between status, and she marries Balu Bhat, a man from a family of purebred Hindu Brahmins, thus acquiring status and a tenuous stability. However, when Balu insists on emigrating to Canada, Leela must trade her newfound comfort for yet another beginning. Once in Vancouver with her husband and two children, Leela’s initial reluctance to leave home gradually evolves.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9780676976045
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Status |
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Twillingate (GTE) | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC BAD | Checked In |