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    <body><![CDATA[<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://okie-booklady.blogspot.com/2008/07/nectar-in-sieve.html" title="http://okie-booklady.blogspot.com/2008/07/nectar-in-sieve.html">http://okie-booklady.blogspot.com/2008/0...</a><br/><br/>At its heart, Nectar in a Sieve is a story about suffering and our response to it. The protagonist is an aging Indian woman looking back over her long life and reflecting on her fate as well as her choices. Much that happened to her, she had no s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23228591">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nectar in a Sieve, written by Kamala Markandaya, is a wonderful novel that lets the reader peek inside the heart of Indian culture. Markandaya, the author of A Handful of Rice and <br/>Some Inner Fury, is actually named Kamala Purnaiya Taylor; she was raised in Mysore, India but she later moved to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18542237">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[     I just finished reading the novel, <u> Nectar in a Sieve </u> written by Kamala Markandaya. The author, born in the highest caste in India but lived mainly in England, writes about the tale of a family's struggles with poverty and globalization. Being Markandaya's first published novel, <u> Nectar in a S...</u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18542119">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Death, theft, prostitution and tenant farming. How could these elements be woven into a tale that inspires, evokes sadness, and creates pathos? Only one tale, spun so well, could this be made possible; that book is Nectar in a Sieve. Kamala Markandaya, authoress extraordinaire, can create emotions n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17728675">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautiful writing and the book is worthy of the praise heaped upon it. I didn't particular enjoy reading this as there was no tension. Life was dismal and just got more dismal. Not that I wanted a &quot;happily ever after&quot; ending because I despise contrived, neat endings. For me, this was a ver...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44264566">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a very well written book, but I just am not a fan of books that make me cry. It is a really sad story. This poor lady has  terrible, terrible, TERRIBLE things happen to her. I was hoping by the end something good would finally happen, but nothing in my opinion ever did. The ending left me w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41712919">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked the simple style in which this book is written.  The story is anything but simple, and the primary character continues to call herself simple.  The travesties through which her family wades are fantastically portrayed.  It's not a treatise on colonialism, or even the woes of poverty.....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66270828">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A tale of an Indian woman's struggles to survive in colonial India. She's married off, struggles to bear children, watches her family rise and fall (mostly fall) yet ultimately holds on to her spirit, even in the face of utter loss. A blurb like this makes it sound like some cheeseball Lifetime movi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38803665">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book in a Novel Class my senior year in High School. It is a beautifully written book and incredibly touching. It takes place in India.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book twice - once in freshman year as part of an english class and once in junior year as part of an Eastern studies class.  I took Eastern studies because I heard it was fun, easy, and it got me away from an awful Spanish teacher, the one who Naseem asked &quot;when are you expecting?&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39262560">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh, man, talk about grimsville!!  I think I'll just run along now and lay my head on that old railroad track!  <br/><br/>These characters are just born to suffer and endure and work their tails off and all for what?  Nothing, because they get screwed every time they start to get some hope back.  S...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38509790">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Rukmani's story is simple and beautiful. Her needs were the basics of life--food, love of her family, survival.  Her way of dealing with her many troubles was quiet and alone, as their culture teaches them to be.  The voice in this story is likewise, it has a beautiful quiet simplicity.  Not asking ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43270121">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The author's language is unadorned, but there is a sort of raw power in the simplicity of the writing style, and certain sentences struck me as beautiful. The book was easy to read, and I didn't want to put it down, but, at the end, I found myself wanting much more. The closing seems abrupt, and so ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26388945">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was one of my favorites. It is a book that takes place across the world from where i live so seeing a different life style was interesting. This book is about a woman named Rukmani and the hard ships that she has to go through living in her village in India. The land that she lives on is h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24584085">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's hard to say much about this book without giving away its secrets. Like a fine woman, this book is not meant to give up her secrets without investing in it completely. A friend gave me this telling me I'd love it. I left it sit for a while, because I’ve heard that a lot. I wish I had picked it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22376260">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i found this book sort of auto-biographical a good personnel account of village life out lined in the chapters of the book published in 1952...displays  in vivid detail  her life as a child were she would always got ot bonfires to see the fireworks, &quot;but the look on the children's eyes was wort...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19851551">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Written by Kamala Markandaya, Nectar in a Sieve is a severe portrayal of poverty in India and the affects that globalization was having on those living in poverty in India.  Markandaya's first published work; Nectar in a Sieve became a best seller in 1955, only a year after it was published. Other w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18654770">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[   <em>Nectar in a Sieve</em> is an exquisite and bold depiction of rural Indian life during the period after India's independence from Britain. The novel was the most prominent of Kamala Markandaya's collection of books. Kamala moved to England at young age, but frequently visited India to find authentic ma...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18560602">more...</a>]]></body>
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