The sleeping dictionary

By Sujata Massey

Subjects: Fiction, coming of age, Young women, Politics and government, Passive resistance, Fiction, general, Fiction, historical, Manners and customs, Young women, fiction, Fiction, Social life and customs, India, fiction

Description: Kamala, a young peasant woman from West Bengal, is drawn into a forbidden romance in 1930s Calcutta and is caught between the country's independence movement and the British colonial society in which she lives.