- Hardcover: 250 pages
- Publisher: John Day Co (Jun 1973)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0381982440
- ISBN-13: 978-0381982447
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14.5 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,981,879 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Format:Hardcover
In her latest novel Kamala Markandaya returns to the setting of her earlier books, a village in India. The story is a timeless one, of growing up, of love and concern and conflict between parents and children, and the lure and dangers of the big city. Kamala Markandaya makes this story come newly alive by her exquisite portrayal of the family of Appa and Amma and especially their younger daughter, Saroja. It is through Saroja's eyes, gentle and yet shrewd, that we view the family, their neighbours and their fortunes and misfortunes.
We experience the girl's growing awareness of the adult world and the slow but irresistible relationships within the family and the village. When the older sister, the lively Lalitha, rebels against the constrictions of village life and yields to the attractions of the city, and as Saroja lives through the ensuring upheaval, the younger sister imperceptibly but irrevocably leaves her own childhood behind.
We experience the girl's growing awareness of the adult world and the slow but irresistible relationships within the family and the village. When the older sister, the lively Lalitha, rebels against the constrictions of village life and yields to the attractions of the city, and as Saroja lives through the ensuring upheaval, the younger sister imperceptibly but irrevocably leaves her own childhood behind.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
One of her best
31 Dec 1998
Format:Hardcover
This coming of age story of two sisters in India is one of Kamala Markandaya's finest works, and my favorite of hers. It is a story of awakening, exploring a time when a child, through events beyond her control, loses her childhood naivete, descriptively termed as her "bubble". An adult book with a timeless story that explores childhood, womanhood, poverty, abortion, prostitution and humanity in a chaotic world.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Gradual maturing of two sisters in village India-Wonderful
12 July 2003
Format:Hardcover
In this book "Two Virgins" Kamala Markandaya takes us into the lives of two sisters who gradually bloom and are on the threshhold of physical maturity set in the background of post Independence India. Kamala navigates very deftly into the lives of Saroja and Lalitha and makes her characters breathe so realistically that we will not forget them once we read the book.
All readers of feminist novels will enjoy this book and it is one of her finest works.
All readers of feminist novels will enjoy this book and it is one of her finest works.
Not "Nectar in a Sieve"
24 Jun 2009
Format:Hardcover
I grew up reading "Nectar in a Sieve" and was very excited to find "Two Virgins." I found the depiction of life in an Indian village- and a young girl's "seduction" by the city- very interesting. However, I found the older sister quite unbelievable and not at all sympathetic, so it was hard to be involved in her story. (Sometimes she seemed so oversexed it was ridiculous.) The novel also moves very slowly at times. I wasn't quite sure whether the very ending was supposed to be fatalistic, comical... or what.
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