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Title: The Sleeping Dictionary
Author: Sujata Massey
Narrator: Sneha Mathan
Format: Unabridged
Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-28-13
Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 73 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
The term "sleeping dictionary" was coined for young Indian women who slept with British men and educated them in the ways of India. Set between 1925 and the end of World War II, The Sleeping Dictionary is the story of Kamala, born to a peasant family in West Bengal, who makes her way to Calcutta of the 1930s. Haunted by a forbidden love, she is caught between the raging independence movement and the British colonial society she finds herself inhabiting. This portrait of late Raj India is both a saga and a passionate love story.
Critic Reviews:
"
The Sleeping Dictionary, an utterly engrossing tale of love, espionage, betrayal, and survival, is historical fiction at its best, accessible to all audiences." (
Booklist)
"A love story richly woven with India's history and struggle for independence,
The Sleeping Dictionary took me on captivating journey through one woman's devastation, resilience, truth and triumph." (Lisa Genova,
New York Times best-selling author of
Still Alice and
Love Anthony.)
"
The Sleeping Dictionary is the book that Sujata Massey was meant to write - an ambitious story of suspense and love and identity, rendered in lush, captivating language. To read it is to step into a fast-moving time machine that delivers us to places and events that will be new to many readers. An exciting, bold work." (Laura Lippman,
New York Times best-selling author of
And When She Was Good)
