Nectar in a Sieve (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Kamala Markandaya
- First Published: 1954
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Realism
- Time of Work: The 1950’s
- Setting: A tenant farm, a village, and a city, all in India
- Genres: Long fiction, Realism, Social realism
- Subjects: 1950’s, Culture, Family or family life, Tradition, Class conflict, Colonialism, Love or romance, Race, Nature, Marriage, 1940’s, Rural or country life, Villages, 1930’s, Poverty or poor people, Farms, farmers, or farming, Faith, India or East Indian people, Small-town life, Lifestyles, Economic conditions, Hindus or Hinduism, Life, philosophy of, Modernization, Industrialization
- Locales: India
Characters Discussed
Rukmani, or Ruku, the female narrator, who nostalgically recounts the story of her life, beginning with her marriage at the age of twelve to a poor tenant farmer in a South India village and ending with the poignant death of her husband in the city and her subsequent return to the village. Although she is in her early forties, she calls herself an old woman who has helplessly witnessed the destruction of the pristine beauty of her quiet village and of a way of life by the onslaught of industrialism in the form of a tannery set up near their village. With...
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