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The Color of Our Sky
- A Novel
- Gesprochen von: Zehra Jane Nacqvi, Sneha Mathan
- Spieldauer: 11 Std. und 50 Min.
- Kategorien: Literatur & Belletristik, Belletristik

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In the spirit of Khaled Hosseini, Nadia Hashimi, and Shilpi Somaya Gowda comes this powerful debut from a talented new voice - a sweeping, emotional journey of two childhood friends in Mumbai, India, whose lives converge only to change forever one fateful night.
India, 1986: Mukta, a 10-year-old village girl from the lower-caste Yellama cult, has come of age and must fulfill her destiny of becoming a temple prostitute, as her mother and grandmother did before her. In an attempt to escape her fate, Mukta is sent to be a house girl for an upper-middle class family in Mumbai. There she discovers a friend in the daughter of the family, high-spirited eight-year-old Tara, who helps her recover from the wounds of her past. Tara introduces Mukta to an entirely different world - one of ice cream, reading, and a friendship that soon becomes a sisterhood.
But one night in 1993, Mukta is kidnapped from Tara's family home and disappears. Shortly thereafter, Tara and her father move to America. A new life in Los Angeles awaits them, but Tara never recovers from the loss of her best friend or stops wondering if she was somehow responsible for Mukta's abduction.
Eleven years later Tara, now an adult, returns to India determined to find Mukta. As her search takes her into the brutal underground world of human trafficking, Tara begins to uncover long-buried secrets in her own family that might explain what happened to Mukta - and why she came to live with Tara's family in the first place.
Moving from a traditional Indian village to the bustling modern metropolis of Mumbai to Los Angeles and back again, this is a heartbreaking and beautiful portrait of an unlikely friendship - a story of love, betrayal, and ultimately redemption.
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- 03.09.2017
Very Touching...I cried many times
At first I was not sure if I would like this book, but after the 1st chapter I found myself mesmerized by the plot and also by the two very talented speakers, as they made this story come to life so wonderfully before my inner eyes.
It is not an easy story to llsten to in my opinion, as the subject of Mukta's story in fact is quite gruesome for us westerners, but it is told in a way that one feels as if accompanying Mukta on her way through living hell, yet trying to find some good in the worst of situations...I found myself crying quite a few times...to all those interested in India beyond Bollywood I very much recommend this book! You will not regret it!
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