Books by Padma Viswanathan
language
English
review 1: This is a fascinating, multi-generational story about a traditional Brahmin family in India who is tested and changed by the significant social and political changes that transformed India in the 20th century. The novel starts in the late 19th century in fictional village of Cho...
language
English
review 1: A novel about a rural Brahmin family in South India, from 1900 to the mid-1950s. Though it's very clearly a novel about the family rather than any individual character, there is a focus on Sivikami, a new bride in the family who's widowed while still in her teens; her son, Vairum...