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MIRA
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
396 pages ; 21 cm
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After witnessing how his widowed mother was treated in the caste system of his homeland, Biren Roy gets a law degree and tries to incite change through academic equality for girls and falls madly in love with the local teacher's daughter.
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"As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not." In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched...
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Publisher
Narrativa/Salamandra
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
782 pages : map ; 23 cm
Description
"El pacto del agua sigue a una familia que sufre una afliccion peculiar: en cada generacion, al menos una persona muere ahogada, y en Kerala el agua esta en todas partes. A principios del siglo XX, una nina de doce anos es enviada en barco para contraer matrimonio con un hombre de cuarenta al que no conoce. A partir de entonces, la joven y futura matriarca, conocida como Big Ammachi, sera testigo de cambios impensables: una historia llena de alegrias,...
5) Iron gold
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A decade ago, Darrow was the hero of the revolution he believed would break the chains of the Society, and abolish the color-coded caste system. But the Rising has shattered everything, and brought endless war. New foes emerge to threaten what has been earned, and throughout the worlds other destinies entwine with Darrow's to change his fate forever. A young Red girl flees tragedy in her refugee camp, and achieves for herself a new life she could...
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