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Raise the Lanterns High (2004)

Raise the Lanterns High (2004)

Literary Fiction Psychological Fiction

Lakshmi Persaud

Year: 2004
Authors: Lakshmi Persaud
Print type: BOOK

Description:

"On the eve of her arrainged marriage, Vasti discovers that she is due to marry the rapist she saw in a sugar cane field years earlier. A horrific dilemma befalls her, she can either speak out, defy convention and bring the family name in disrepute or submit silently to her fate. The emotional strain is too much: the bride to be collapses, and while unconscious, travels in a dream from her home in 1960s Trinidad back to the 18th century city of Jyotika in North India.........." -- Back cover.