Word: markandaya
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SOME INNER FURY (255 pp.)-Komala Markandaya-John...
...first three-quarters of her novel, India's Kamala Markandaya, 32, chronicles this head-on culture clash on the purely domestic level, but in the last part Some Inner Fury is rocked by the ferocity of an India passion-bent on independence. In the eye of this hurricane is Author Markandaya's heroine, a grave-eyed, gentle-born girl of 16 named Mira. When her brother Kitsamy brings an Oxford classmate, Richard Marlowe, home with him after graduation, Mira is so blushing-bold as to beg her mother to let her go on an unchaperoned swimming party with...
...Author Markandaya lives and writes in London, and her book has the drawbacks of the contemporary English novel in which the writer's gentlemanly reach never exceeds the grasp of a meticulously tailored talent. However, the personal relationships of her characters have a tenderness and warmth noticeably above Anglo-Saxon room temperature. When East and West finally do spill blood in Some Inner Fury, it is not stanched with muffling allusions to history-on-the-march, but flows with the startling immediacy and open-faced surprise of an accident in the family kitchen where homely, familiar objects sometimes rise...
Nectar in a Sieve, by Kamala Markandaya, did more to explain ordinary life in India than most of the year's nonfiction books on the subject put together. It was a tale of hunger and suffering, wholly lacking in bitterness, and creating quick sympathy for its peasant characters...
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