Water
by Bapsi Sidhwa
Based on the motion picture by critically acclaimed filmmaker Deepa Mehta.
Set in 1938 colonial India against the backdrop of Mahatma Gandhi’s rise to power, Water
follows the life of eight-year-old Chuyia, a child-bride who is
abandoned at a widow’s ashram after the demise of her fifty-year-old
husband. There, she is forced to live out a life of penitence until
death.
Unwilling to accept her fate, Chuyia becomes a catalyst for change
in the lives of the widows. When her friend, the beautiful
widow-prostitute Kalyani, falls in love with a young, upper-class
Gandhian idealist, the forbidden affair boldly defies Hindu tradition
and threatens to undermine the delicate balance of power within the
ashram.
Water offers a riveting examination of the lives of widows in
colonial India. Ultimately it is a haunting and lyrical story of love,
faith, and redemption. The publication of Water coincides with the national release of Deepa Mehta’s film of the same name, distribution by Fox Searchlight.
Read a Q&A with Bapsi Sidhwa about the process of moving from film, to novel.
Bapsi Sidhwa
Author's Bio:Born in Karachi and raised in Lahore, Bapsi Sidhwa has been widely
acclaimed as Pakistan’s finest contemporary novelist. She is the author
of four other novels, The Bride, The Crow Eaters, An American Bride, and Cracking India, which was made into the award-winning film Earth
by the Canadian-Indian director Deepa Mehta. She has been the recipient
of numerous honors and awards, among them a National Endowment for the
Arts Fellowship, a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award, and the
Sitara-I-Imtiaz, Pakistan’s highest honor in the arts. She lives in Houston.
Quotes:“Brilliant. . . . Bapsi Sidhwa adds richness and depth to the beautiful
film, Water. [She] provides speech where the film must leave the women
silent.”—Sara Suleri Goodyear, Yale University
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Price:
$ 16.95
Binding: Paperback
Availability In Stock: 130
Immediately
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2006
Size: 5 1/2 X 8 1/2
Genre: Fiction
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781571310569
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