The Binding Vine
The New Novel From The Bestselling Author Of That Long Silence
The Narrator In The Binding Vine 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. Shashi Deshpande Explores With Acuity And Compassion The Redemptive Powers Of Love.
207 pages, 6 editions
English edition · First published 1993 by Penguin Books India · ISBN 9780140233360
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Editions
6 editions
English
- The Binding Vine · Penguin Books India · 1993 · ISBN 9780140233360 This page
- The Binding Vine · The Feminist Press at CUNY · 2002 · ISBN 9781558617858
- The Binding Vine · Feminist Press at the City University of New York · 2001 · ISBN 9781558612679
- The binding vine · Feminist Press at the City University of New York · 2001 · ISBN 9781558614024
- The Binding Vine · Virago · 1993 · ISBN 9781853815546
Other (97893)
- The Binding Vine · Penguin UK · 2000 · ISBN 9789351182801
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