A Present from India

by M-J Carreyette

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Pub Date 28 Feb 2017 | Archive Date 15 Mar 2017

Troubador Publishing Limited | Matador

General Fiction (Adult) | Travel

Description

A tragic death first plunges a family into grief, then launches a widow and her daughter on a voyage of discovery. Intent on uncovering their family roots, they travel to India.

Dee, a teacher in her thirties, wants to find out where her late father’s elusive relatives came from. But Eva, her mother, has a private agenda. She wants to track down someone she once knew long ago, when she was young.

The story skips between generations, from modern-day India back in time to Soviet Moscow, a place in an era now lost, where Eva was a student in the 1970s.

Can either woman accomplish her mission in the limited time they have as they travel around the sub-continent trying to overcome the obstacles that keep appearing in their path? Can a secret be revealed at last? Rash actions can have long-term consequences, after all.

As Eva promises Dee, it will be an interesting journey. Perhaps a little too interesting at times . . ..

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ISBN	9781785897917
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Joyce F, Reviewer

4 Stars

Dr. Prakash Singh died tragically after falling from a ladder and was the father of Dee and the husband of Eva. At the memorial service, Dee expresses a wish to go to India. Surprisingly, Eva would like to go too. Although the two women have very different reasons for going – Eva wants to track down an old flame, Chandra, and Dee wants to find some long lost Singh relatives. She feels cut off from her father’s side of the family and wants to meet them. The problem is that Singh is a very common name in India – where does one start looking?

This book goes back and forth between 1976-1977 and 2014. 1976 is when Eva first met Chandra at a Russian language school in Moscow, USSR. There were several students there learning not only Russian, but all languages.

When they get there to India, Dee wants to experience the “real” India. It becomes somewhat of a joke between the two women. They see crowds, are intimidated by the hectic traffic, experience fabulous hotels, beach huts, and awful slums. They see the real India.

The reason that Eva’s lukewarm on Dee’s Singh search comes as a shock – although perhaps it shouldn’t have.

This book is marvelously written and is an interesting travelogue on India. I have had little experience of India and have never been there so this book was a refreshing view of the people and the culture.

I want to thank Netgalley and Matador for forwarding to me a copy of this nice book to read.