From Google books:
Set against the volatile events of the last forty years of Sri Lankan history, A Disobedient Girl traces the lives of three characters whose interwoven fates and histories force them to answer life's most difficult questions. Beautiful, haunting, alive, and brimming with truth, it is, above all, a novel about extraordinary circumstances that change life in an instant and the power of love to transcend time and place.
The story begins with two little girls, mistress and servant, one with every luxury and opportunity that money can buy and the other with nothing but her yearning for a better life. Together, they grow up bound by love, betrayal, resentment, and an impossible secret.
Then there is Biso, a devoted mother of three, who risks everything to escape from the hands of her tyrannical husband. But her journey, which begins with such hope, takes her on a disastrous path that ultimately leads her to give her life over to strangers she never imagined she would have reason to know, binding her story with that of the girls in the most unexpected way.
This story was hard to get into, but was totally worth the read! (I started it before Christmas and just finished it.) Surprising, heartbreaking and interesting.
3 comments:
ok! will add this one to the list.
I also found this one hard to get into, Erica. However, I pushed through and read it and I quite liked it! The ending was especially interesting - a good little twist.
Yes, difficult to get into for me too! I thought the ending was worth the trouble though.
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