![]() Guliya Tharu, Sonia?s host in Nepal, is forever befuddled by her jumpy guest Guliya?s young daughter Moti spoils her with ?bad tea? in the mornings and takes her on an epic pilgrimage to a holy shrine while the handsome and courteous Rekraj, a colleague, acts as her local guardian, and protects Sonia from spicy food and his lecherous cousins. Armed only with an amulet and a mantra, and vague stories of an ancestor who lived in Kanpur and died during the Revolt of 1857, she finds herself among people and in a culture very different from her own. ![]() She ends up on the green, exotic island of Rajapur in the middle of the Karnali river. Deserted by her husband and forced out of her job as a schoolteacher, Sonia Swayne flees the sullen climes of Cambridge, England, to work for a charity which trains teachers in the plains of Nepal. ![]()
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