The Binding Vine

The Binding Vine

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Author: Shashi Deshpande
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 1998
Language: English
Pages: 207
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0140233369

Description

In this novel, the best-selling author of 'That Long Silence', explores with acuity and compassion the redemptive powers of love.

The narrator in this novel is the clever, sharp-tongued Urmi, grieving over the death of her baby daughter and surrounded by, but rebuffing, the care of her mother and her childhood friend, Vanaa. Instead, she becomes caught up in the discovery of her long-dead mother-in-law's poetry, written when she was a young woman subjected to rape in her marriage; and in Kalpana, a young woman hanging between life and death in a hospital ward, also the victim of rape.

Yet in this web of loss and despair are the glimmerings of hope.