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Anju en Sudha Reeks

Deze serie duikt in de diepe familiebanden en het ingewikkelde levensweefsel in India. Het volgt de verweven lotsbestemmingen van twee jonge vrouwen, vanaf hun geboorte met elkaar verbonden door een onbreekbare band. De verhalen verkennen thema's als liefde, verlies en veerkracht tegen de achtergrond van traditionele maatschappelijke verwachtingen, waaronder gearrangeerde huwelijken. Elke aflevering biedt inzicht in de kracht van vrouwelijke vriendschap en de reis van zelfontdekking in een wereld in transitie.

The Vine of Desire
Sister of My Heart

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  1. Sister of My Heart

    • 336bladzijden
    • 12 uur lezen

    Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family; her cousin Sudha is the daughter of the black sheep of the family. Sudha is as beautiful, tenderhearted, and serious as Anju is plain, whip-smart, and defiant. Yet since the day they were born, Sudha and Anju have been bonded in ways even their mothers cannot comprehend.The cousins' bond is shattered, however, when Sudha learns a dark family secret. Urged into arranged marriages, their lives take sudden, opposite turns: Sudha becomes the dutiful daughter-in-law of a rigid small-town household, while Anju goes to America with her new husband and learns to live her own life of secrets. Then tragedy strikes them both, and the women discover that, despite the distance that has grown between them, they have only each other to turn to. Set in the two worlds of India and America, this is an exceptionally moving novel of love, friendship, and compelling courage.

    Sister of My Heart1
    4,0

  2. The Vine of Desire

    • 352bladzijden
    • 13 uur lezen

    m ZZ-UNEDITED-TWUK THE VINE OF DESIRE is the story of Anju and Sudha, two young women far from Calcutta, the city of their childhood, and who after a year of living separate lives are rekindling their friendship in America. The deep-seated love they feel for each other provides the support each of them needs. It gives Anju the strength to pick up the pieces of her life after a miscarriage, and Sudha the confidence to make a life for herself and her baby daughter, Dayita - without her husband. The unlikely relationships they form with men and women in the world outside the immigrant Indian community as well as their families in India profoundly transform them, forcing them to question the central assumptions of their lives, especially when they must confront the deeply passionate feelings that Anju's husband has for Sudha. THE VINE OF DESIRE is a novel of extraordinary depth and sensitivity. Through the eyes of people caught in the clash of cultures, Divakaruni reveals the rewards and the perils of breaking free from the past and the complicated, often contradictory emotions that shape the passage to independence.

    The Vine of Desire2
    3,5