The Color of Our Sky
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Zehra Jane Nacqvi
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Sneha Mathan
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By:
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Amita Trasi
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In the spirit of Khaled Hosseini, Nadia Hashimi, and Shilpi Somaya Gowda comes this powerful debut from a talented new voice - a sweeping, emotional journey of two childhood friends in Mumbai, India, whose lives converge only to change forever one fateful night.
India, 1986: Mukta, a 10-year-old village girl from the lower-caste Yellama cult, has come of age and must fulfill her destiny of becoming a temple prostitute, as her mother and grandmother did before her. In an attempt to escape her fate, Mukta is sent to be a house girl for an upper-middle class family in Mumbai. There she discovers a friend in the daughter of the family, high-spirited eight-year-old Tara, who helps her recover from the wounds of her past. Tara introduces Mukta to an entirely different world - one of ice cream, reading, and a friendship that soon becomes a sisterhood.
But one night in 1993, Mukta is kidnapped from Tara's family home and disappears. Shortly thereafter, Tara and her father move to America. A new life in Los Angeles awaits them, but Tara never recovers from the loss of her best friend or stops wondering if she was somehow responsible for Mukta's abduction.
Eleven years later Tara, now an adult, returns to India determined to find Mukta. As her search takes her into the brutal underground world of human trafficking, Tara begins to uncover long-buried secrets in her own family that might explain what happened to Mukta - and why she came to live with Tara's family in the first place.
Moving from a traditional Indian village to the bustling modern metropolis of Mumbai to Los Angeles and back again, this is a heartbreaking and beautiful portrait of an unlikely friendship - a story of love, betrayal, and ultimately redemption.
©2017 Amita Trasi (P)2017 HarperCollins PublishersListeners also enjoyed...
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- shiri
- 06-02-23
Very good
The story is very sad about difficult life .but it is a very good one I couldn’t stop listening
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- Neelam Chauhan
- 04-06-21
great listen and even better the storyline !
great listen! great narrator and a great storyline. definitely recommend this book to everyone .
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- Anonymous User
- 24-07-19
EXEMPLARY
I think I've mentioned before how much I love Khaled Hosseini's books - I am constantly seeking writers who write in a similar way and also who write about life in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. This book is set in India.. the writing in fantastic, you feel the emotions so deeply through this author's wonderful way with words.. the pictures created in the reader's mind by the superb writing is as good as anything I've read by the wonderful Khaled Hosseini. This is a lovely story, heartbreaking, real, gives the reader a peep into lives of people in the saddest situations. I am now a huge fan of this author... this is her first book - I am so looking forward to her next :)
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- K. Sewell
- 27-08-23
Emotional, painful, yet unputdownable
I found the history of this supposedly religious cult very interesting but also horrifying. I read up about it online in order to understand the novel better, and also because I could hardly believe it was true… and found that it is absolutely accurate.
Apart from the plot about how one girl is eventually rescued from prostitution, it shows how this dreadful form of slavery works in India.
I thought it was well written and engaging, I was just a bit sceptical about the way the main character snaps into being quite worldly, socially sophisticated and forgiving, after a youth spent in brothels. Altogether, I found the story fascinating.
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- Lubsy1
- 26-09-23
Just Beautiful
I loved this story. The storyline played like a Bollywood film in my head as I listened to this on Audible. I'm not talking about a song and dance movie, more a touching, poignant, beautifully sad and happy movie, with a serious story to portray. The narration was Excellent. The voices bought the characters to life so vividly.
Beautifully crafted story with such an eye-opening insight into the brothel business in India, The cruelty and harshness and the camaraderie and companionship formed in a hostile and sordid environment was hard to bear at times and touching and compassionate at others. I thought Tara an over indulged child and then as an adult sometimes patronising and hypocritical. But she was a good character. Her heart was in the right place.
Mukta's character was almost Matyr like. She was full of goodness and patience and most of all enduring hope, despite all the atrocities, hardships and abuse she suffered in her life.
This is a story that must be read or listened to. It will make you feel a whirlwind of emotions, but most of all you will see how love endures through the harshest of times.
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- Happy Thriver
- 09-02-23
Beautiful story.
Excellent book. This book is totally captivating on an emotional subject beautifully handled. Both well written and narrated.
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- Mrs Sally Atkinson
- 22-08-23
Beautiful, heart rending story
Wow, I so enjoyed this book, beautifully narrated, such a riveting story. I really couldn’t stop listening, cried buckets! Thoroughly recommend, sad it’s over.
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- Sally Prentis
- 20-12-23
Moving and beautifully narrated
I loved everything about this book. I was taken on a journey that captivated me from start to finish
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- Danielle Connolly
- 09-02-24
Very sad and tragic but laced with hope.
This is a beautifully written story, and very easy to listen to as The narration is excellent. It prompted me to do some l research into the devadasi tradition which still prevails in India, which makes this story all the more tragic.
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- jac powell
- 03-03-24
very moving story.
fantastic,descriptive writing, really felt the pain and suffering, I admit I was moved to tears at the end.
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