Three Bargains: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (633 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393063402 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Three Bargains is her first novel. She received her degree from the University of Delhi and currently lives in northern California with her husband, daughter, and dog. . Tania Malik was born in New Delhi, educated in boarding schools in the Himalayas, and raised in India, Africa, and the Middle East
Cindy Bailey said Engrossing Novel You Won't Be Able to Put Down. A thoroughly engrossing tale that teaches about the raw challenges and realities of India's class struggles. This novel is so beautifully written and the characters so well drawn, that you easily become immersed in its rich, dramatic story. I couldn't put the book down and am looking forward to this author's next tale.. "Well-written" according to Lucy M.. I have been seeking out novels about India during the past year. I loved Thrity Umrigar's books entitled Weight of Heaven and The Space Between Us. Another non-fiction winner was Beautiful Forevers. So when I saw Three Bargains written up in the San Francisco Chronicle, I quickly checked it out of the library. All of these books seem to focus on the glaring difference between the haves and have nots of India and can take you to some depressingly low points. Malik's book was no diffe. "A book has to be really good to leave me with so many mixed thoughts and" according to Resham M. Just finished reading 'The Three Bargains'. As I write this review, I still have a knot in my chest and a lot of mixed feelings lingering inside. A book has to be really good to leave me with so many mixed thoughts and emotions N this one has managed to do so.The author has a way with words. She uses them beautifully to bring back a childhood memory, to describe something her readers may be familiar with, and to express her deepest observations of the smallest of phrases or things.
Madan's father works for Avtaar Singh, a powerful and controlling man who owns the largest factory in town and much of the land around it. Suddenly it looks as if everything will change for Madan and his family until a forbidden love affair has brutal consequences and he is forced to leave behind all that is dear to him. On his journey toward redemption, Madan will have to bargain, once, twice, three times for his life and for the lives of those he loves.. Drawn into Avtaar Singh's violent world, Madan becomes his son in every way but by blood. A tale of fathers and sons, the ties that bind, and the barriers of class that even love cannot break, Three Bargains is a stunning first novel, as potent, heart-stopping, and epic as Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner. By the banks of the River Yamuna in northern India, where rice paddies of basmati merge into fields of sugarcane, twelve-year-old Madan lives with his impoverished family in the town of Gorapur. When Madan’s father's misdeeds jeopardize his sister's life, Madan strikes his first bargain with Avtaar Singh to save her. Madan's sharp mind and hardened determination catch Avtaar Singh's attention
(Ellen Feldman, author of The Unwitting)Three Bargains brought back the dimly remembered pleasure of being swept up in the fast, deep waters of a great tale. (Thomas Chatterton Williams - San Francisco Chronicle)An impressive first novel. (Debra Dean, author of The Mirrored World)Such a beautifully written book, full of moving, honest, indelible characters that make you hate to leave them by the endan astonishing debut! Reading Malik’s first novel reminded me of encountering Toni Morrison and Louise Erdrich’s early fictionyou already see the promise of genius there. (Georgia Rowe - San Jose Mercury News)Madan’s is an adventure well worth joining. Richly textured and morally nuanced. (Anne Morris - Dallas Morning News)Mesmerizing prose and heart-stopping action both honest and astounding. (Jonis Agee, author of The River Wife) . An im