Dimensions
130 x 198 x 15mm
'The Mango Season' is a lush and beautifully written novel from a highly acclaimed writer. With vivid descriptions and compelling characters, it takes the reader on a trip into the heart and soul of contemporary India.
Priya Rao left India when she was twenty to study in America. Now, seven years later, she has returned for a visit to discover her parents are intent on arranging her marriage to a suitable Indian boy.
She has arrived home in time for the harvesting of mangoes - the hottest time of the year and a time full of ritual and ceremony. As a child she had loved this season best but, after years away, Priya finds the heat of an Indian summer overwhelming and everything about India seems different - dirtier and more chaotic than she remembers.
Her extended family are also consumed by talk of marriage - particularly the marriage of her uncle Anand, and his decision to marry not only for love but to marry a woman of a much lover caste. Priya can only guess at what reaction her own engagement would provoke if she were to reveal that she has left behind a fiancé in America, a fiancé of an entirely different race and religion . . .
