Description: A classic survival story by one of India's most acclaimed authors, set in a quiet village outside of Bombay about two siblings who struggle to maintain their family's bond in difficult times
Anita Desai’s The Village by the Sea is an exciting and moving story about life in an Indian coastal village and life in the unimaginably big city of Bombay. It is the story of thirteen-year-old Lila and her twelve-year-old brother, Hari. As the book begins, Lila is wading into the sea to bring scarlet hibiscus, sweet-smelling lilies, and butter-yellow allamanda flowers to the sacred rock the fishermen’s wives pray to, just as her mother did before her father had to sell his boat to pay his debts and her mother fell ill. Now Lila and Hari must care for their ailing parents as well as their two younger sisters. Sensing adventure and a chance to save his family, and possibly his village, Hari impulsively joins a group of farmers and fishermen traveling to Bombay to protest the construction of a fertilizer factory that threatens to pollute the coastline and destroy their livelihood. Will the protest succeed? Can Hari survive in the city, and can Lila manage at home without him? Through their own resources, and the kindnesses of strangers, Hari and Lila must find a way to “Adapt! Adapt!” as their ornithologist friend urges, just as the birds and animals must do to survive.
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Narrative Type: book
Type: book
Book Title: Village by the Sea
Number of Pages: 276 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2019
Topic: Social Themes / Homelessness & Poverty, People & Places / Asia, General, Family / Siblings, Family / General (See Also Headings under Social Themes)
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
Item Weight: 9.8 Oz
Item Length: 7.6 in
Author: Anita Desai
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
