Clinton, founder and head of a firm of international engineers,arrives in India to build a dam, bringing with him his young wife,Helen, and a strong team of aides and skilled men. They are facedwith a formidable challenge, which involves working in dauntingmountain and jungle terrain, within a time schedule dictated by theextreme tropical weather. Setbacks occur which bring into focusfundamental differences in the attitudes to life and death of theBritish bosses and the Indian workers. A timely reminder of theBritish contempt for Indian lives and for nature.
Kamala Markandaya(1924 – 2004) was born in Mysore, India. She studied history at Madras University and later worked for a small progressive magazine before moving to London in 1948 in pursuit of a career in journalism. There she began writing her novels;Nectar in a Sieve, her first novel published in 1954, was an international bestseller.
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