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About the BookAn engaging social novel set in the background of suburban and rural Bihar of immediate post-independence period. Using unique tone and texture, it presents a gripping tale of an innocent poor and lovelorn girl Tara sold in marriage to a Zamindar who uses her merely as a sex tool to quench his passion and forbearing children. In her prime youth, she is lured to the dream of real love relationship which doesn't last for long and is again sold to abusing hands. After suffering a lot she finally escapes the ordeal and seeks marital bliss. Written in impeccable idiomatic English, the presentation of theme, characterization and narration of events is unparallel and engrossing which makes it unputdownable.About the AuthorDr. Narendra K Sinha, post retirement, is an Honorary Fellow at the Center for South Asia at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA. He was born on August 2, 1932, at Gaya, Bihar, India. He holds a Master's degree in Hindi, in Sanskrit, and in Pali, and a Ph.D. in Linguistics. He started his career as a lecturer in Hindi at Magadha University, Bodhgaya. He had been a Unguist at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. He worked as a Senior Research Officer at Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore. He was also a Senior Research Associate in Linguistics at Santiniketan for a couple of years. He migrated to USA in 1980 where he started a new career as an instructor in English as a Second Language. He had been a visiting Professor at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis and a Research faculty at the University of Wisconsin. He has been busy in creative writing in both Hindi and English such as writing short stories, novels, and poems. He has already published five books in this area so far and five other are in press. He has been writing for different newspapers and magazines regularly.