English Lessons and Other Stories

Author: Shauna Singh Baldwin
Publisher: HarperCollins
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 171
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8172233507

Description

These passionate stories dramatize the lives of Indian women from 1919 to today, from India to North America, and from the closed circle of the family to the wilderness of office and university.

These women inhabit silence; by saying little, they can know everything. Some, imprisoned by silence, choke on their knowledge. Some use knowledge with bloody force against their oppressors. And some harness its powers to seize their freedom.