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In a enlightenment where skin colour can establish one's destiny, fraternal twins PULLAMMA and LATA are about to embark on a tour that will rip their lives apart.
Dark skinned Pullamma dreams of being a wife. She is wakeful that with 3 girls in a family, there isn't adequate dowry to go around. But a lady can hope. She's good capable in cooking, plight making, cow soaking -- we name it. She's also thankful her out-of-date grandmother by not doing good in school. As a sixteen year aged helps prepared a residence for her comparison sister's bride viewing, she prays for a certain outcome to a event. What happens subsequent is so improbable that it will figure Pullamma's destiny in ways she couldn't have foreseen.
Fair skinned and pretty, Lata would rather investigate medicine. Unable to grasp a abyss of Lata's desire, Grandma formalizes a matrimony fondness for a girl. Distraught, Lata rebels. She ends adult pregnant. The indirect liaison army her into marriage.
Lata ends adult poor, untaught and married to a male she can't abide. Pullamma, meanwhile, is vital Lata's dream -- she is rich, powerful, and married to a good man. The usually hitch, from Pullamma's indicate of view, is that she can't acknowledge her father in public. And, oh, a fact that fallacious villagers consider she is Goddess.
TELL A THOUSAND LIES, is a infrequently wry, infrequently sad, though mostly picturesque demeanour during how superstition, and a colour of a girl's skin, manners India's hinterlands.
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- Published on: 2012-03-08
- Released on: 2012-03-08
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
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Shortlisted for a 2012 Tibor Jones South Asia prize.
"We also quite enjoyed a work of Rasana Atreya, [one of] the [two] runners up."
--- The Writing Room Bursary Competition 2011.
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By Holly J. Michael
Tell a Thousand Lies is an enchanting novel that draws we into a heart and days of Pullamma's India where superstitions, a wrong tone skin, and unwashed politicians can establish a women's fate.
Raised by her grandmother, after her mom dies in birth and her father deserts a family, Pullamma lets go of a comfort of childhood innocence, fun and alliance of her best crony Chinni, to face woman-hood in a rare conditions she lands in.
We transport with Pullamma and all of her hardships as she goes from a immature lady in farming mid-1980s India anticipating for a metropolitan H2O tie and a good husband--in annoy of her dim skin and deficient dowry--through her years of forced Goddesshood and problems and betrayals that take her into her adult years.
Tell a Thousand Lies is a relocating comedic story about a woman's presence within governmental and patrimonial expectations. It allows us to turn a partial of a life of an endearing lady who creates a many out of formidable situations. It's a story about holds of friendships, damaged and restored, and love. we couldn't put a book down by Pullamma's travels and trials in India.
Pullamma's integrity to overcome so many contingency kept me breathlessly branch a pages to see how she would get out of a subsequent pickle, and we don't meant her homemade plight that became a source of income and a matter for womanlike fastening and new friendships. we cheered when Pullamma triumphed underneath a many formidable situations and bit my nails when she had to face a immorality politician's mischief.
Atreya's expressive essay and minute observations of life for women in India as good as a beauty and chronological attract of India come by beautifully in this novel. we suffer books filled with informative brilliance that illuminate and perform and Rasana Atreya pulls this off beautifully in her entrance novel.
Having trafficked via India several times and carrying kin who live in India, we appreciated a spot-on struggles Indian women faced in a past and continue to face even today.
Tell A Thousand lies is an romantic rollercoaster float that creates we keep rooting for Pullamma as Atreya delightfully and hilariously infuses issues of class, religion, work, education, passionate roles, and a ties between women.
This is a really descriptive, good created story that draws we into a lives and emotions of a characters. A really good, humorous, touching and heartwarming read.
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First tagged "drama" by Rasana Atreya
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