Keeping Corner
- ISBN-10
- 1442019816
- ISBN-13
- 9781442019812
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-07-10
- Publisher
- Paw Prints
- Author
- Kashmira Sheth
Description
In India in the 1940s, thirteen-year-old Leela's happy, spoiled childhood ends when her husband since age nine, whom she barely knows, dies, leaving her a widow whose only hope of happiness could come from Mahatma Ghandi's social and political reforms. Reprint.
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