Description

The author captures the beautifully the atmosphere of war and peace, joy and suffering, achievements and failures, intimacies and betrayals, secrets and scandals, ripening friendships and gripping nostalgia within a period of over forty years in her people's history. There is humor as well as magic and suspense in this remarkable novel, as the plot thickens in a maze of dizzying twists and turns. In the end, what emerges is like a poetic testament and pilgrimage- precious, passionate, profound and spiritual, yet superbly penetrating in its exposition of the cultural endowments which introduce the reader to an impressive pageant of heroic women.