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- catalog abstract ""'Everything that was tender, fragrant, fresh and pure ... All turned to ashes ... Had she herself been saved or burned to nothing, like the offerings in the fire?'" "As Guddo's family gathers in her New York apartment to welcome the new year, she re-lives the ten years that have passed since she left her native India. Drawn to the USA by the promise of a glamorous life, Guddo's whole family become ensnared in a struggle between Indian and American ways of life. She watches as the next generation is drawn inevitably into rootless Western ways, with tragic results." "A fast-moving novel which encapsulates the conflicts of the immigrant to the West, through the eyes of a woman coming to terms with loss and challenge."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Havana. English".
- catalog contributor b5447350.
- catalog created "1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1993.".
- catalog description ""'Everything that was tender, fragrant, fresh and pure ... All turned to ashes ... Had she herself been saved or burned to nothing, like the offerings in the fire?'" "As Guddo's family gathers in her New York apartment to welcome the new year, she re-lives the ten years that have passed since she left her native India. Drawn to the USA by the promise of a glamorous life, Guddo's whole family become ensnared in a struggle between Indian and American ways of life. She watches as the next generation is drawn inevitably into rootless Western ways, with tragic results." "A fast-moving novel which encapsulates the conflicts of the immigrant to the West, through the eyes of a woman coming to terms with loss and challenge."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "As Guddo's family gathers in her New York apartment to welcome the new year, she re-lives the ten years that have passed since she left her native India. Drawn to the USA by the promise of a glamorous life, Guddo's whole family become ensnared in a struggle between Indian and American ways of life. She watches as the next generation is drawn inevitably into rootless Western ways, with tragic results. A fast-moving novel which encapsulates the conflicts of the immigrant to the West, through the eyes of a woman coming to terms with loss and challenge.".
- catalog extent "viii, 182 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Fire sacrifice.".
- catalog identifier "0435950878 (pbk) :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Fire sacrifice.".
- catalog isPartOf "Asian writers series (Oxford, England)".
- catalog isPartOf "Asian writers series".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "1993.".
- catalog language "eng hin".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; Portsmouth, N.H., USA : Heinemann,".
- catalog relation "Fire sacrifice.".
- catalog subject "891/.4337 20".
- catalog subject "Families Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Hindi fiction".
- catalog subject "PK2098.13.E35 H313 1993".
- catalog tableOfContents "As Guddo's family gathers in her New York apartment to welcome the new year, she re-lives the ten years that have passed since she left her native India. Drawn to the USA by the promise of a glamorous life, Guddo's whole family become ensnared in a struggle between Indian and American ways of life. She watches as the next generation is drawn inevitably into rootless Western ways, with tragic results. A fast-moving novel which encapsulates the conflicts of the immigrant to the West, through the eyes of a woman coming to terms with loss and challenge.".
- catalog title "Havana. English".
- catalog title "The fire sacrifice : (Havan) / Susham Bedi ; translated from the Hindi by David Rubin.".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "text".