Nectar in a Sieve (Signet Classics) by Kamala Markandaya Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Nectar in a Sieve (Signet Classics)
Book Review: Really a 2.5ish book
Summary: 3 Stars
The one great thing about this book is I'm not apathetic about the character. They aggravate me, but I do care in some way, shape or form.
The thing is I didn't enjoy reading this book and it wasn't the 'depressing' tale, that doesn't bother me I like bittersweet tales. This book just leaves me with annoyance and dislike for it.
I do like however that it's told like life though I don't think the writing is all that great...the tale itself is lifelike.
Book Review: Foreign Investment ->Inflation
Summary: 4 Stars
The book was a good and fast read. Shows you rural life, and what happens when outside money, like foreign investment and development of factories and such leads to inflation, and the affects of this huge inflation on the local residents of the place, who struggles to keep up with all these foreigners that are making prices skyrocket, ... a good book for Macro Economists, and International Business investors trying to bring factories and sweat shops into places and paying the factory workers well beyond local wages, "for Political Correctness" back home, and the affects on those who don't work in that factory. It is not about third world poverty like someone said earlier who probably skimmed the book for class.Book Review: we get it already.
Summary: 1 Stars
Okay. You live in an impoverished country and you don't have enough rice. What else is new? We've heard this story a billion times and now it's really failing to move us.
If this book shed more light on Indian culture and history, it'd be worthwhile, but it's just a book thrown onto high school core reading lists as part of the big plan to turn us all into culturally sensitive and politically correct zombiecitizens.
Book Review: The Review
Summary: 4 Stars
This book is amazing. I read it to qualify for a scholarship and ended up loving it. the author really helps you relate to the characters and especially Rukmai. This is a book that mothers, wives, and everyone in between should read. The insight on life, this book gives, allows the reader to look at his or her own lives and perhaps change for the better. The main character is a young women who has been married off to a middle age man she has never meet. She finds that despite difficulties her family has, her husband loves her unconditionally and will do whatever he can to please her. The book takes place in India, where droughts are very common. This is a problem for the family because they make a living from farming. Through out their marriage they have one daughter and many sons, who keep them on their toes. When it is time for their oldest sons to get a job they receive one at the tannery. This brings in good money but is kind of a disgrace because the sons do not follow in their fathers shoes. The tannery is also looked at as a sort of a disgrace, because it has made the village a noisy and has brought unwanted people. Soon the good times end and money is no longer abundant. This brings difficulties for the family, and challenges Rukmai's relationship with her husband and kids. This is an excellent book and I recommend it to everyone.
Book Review: A timeless and beautiful story of value to anyone serious about growing up
Summary: 4 Stars
To live in another country, to live in another person's skin. This is the lesson of NECTAR IN A SIEVE. It is the most valuable of life's lessons. This classic book teaches just how different our outer worlds can be, and just how much the same we all are inside of our skins, inside of our thoughts. A timeless and beautiful story of value to anyone serious about growing up and reaching out to the wider world.