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The Highlands of Yore

by Monisha Raman

Women’s lives across five centuries in a fictional South Indian district

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Women’s lives across five centuries in a fictional South Indian district

Set in the imagined mountain district of Betta, these interconnected stories span five centuries and follow women confronting pressures shaped by their relationships, circumstances, and inherited culture. The supplied description ranges from a sixteenth-century queen defending her lineage to women navigating marriage, desire, and memory. Together, their stories trace one isolated community as its culture faces change, linking individual lives across generations.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in interconnected historical stories spanning multiple centuries.
  • Readers seeking fiction centered on women and a community in South India.
  • Readers interested in themes of cultural inheritance, marriage, and desire.

Themes

Women’s lives across generationsCultural inheritance and changeMarriage and desireCommunity and isolation

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Book overview

A queen in the mid-sixteenth century who has to save her lineage from the enemies, a naive seventeen-year-old, wedded to a middle-aged farmer who battles her intense attraction towards another woman, a lonely housewife in a failing marriage to an ambitious businessman who is haunted by memories of her affectionate lover-- what do these women have in common? The Betta is a fictitious mountain district in South India. The people residing here are isolated. What happens when a group of strangers find their way into the heart of the hills? In these interconnected stories, each woman inherits a culture in crisis from those who came before her. The voices of these women from five different centuries stand testament to the journey of one community. As time progresses, the fa
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