The Widows of Malabar Hill
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This Deluxe Paperback Edition features: an interview with the author, discussion questions, essays on the real-life inspirations behind the novel, delicious recipes taken from the story, and previews of The Satapur Moonstone.
Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Armed with a legal education from Oxford, Perveen also has a tragic personal history that makes women's legal rights especially important to her.
Mistry Law has been appointed to execute the will of Mr. Omar Farid, a wealthy Muslim mill owner who has left three widows behind. But as Perveen examines the paperwork, she notices something strange: all three of the wives have signed over their full inheritance to a charity. What will they live on? Perveen is suspicious, especially since one of the widows has signed her form with an X—meaning she probably couldn't even read the document. The Farid widows live in full purdah—in strict seclusion, never leaving the women's quarters or speaking to any men. Are they being taken advantage of by an unscrupulous guardian? Perveen tries to investigate, and realizes her instincts were correct when tensions escalate to murder. Now it is her responsibility to figure out what really happened on Malabar Hill, and to ensure that no innocent women or children are in further danger.
Inspired in part by the woman who made history as India's first female attorney, The Widows of Malabar Hill is a richly wrought story of multicultural 1920s Bombay as well as the debut of a sharp new sleuth.
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Kurzweilig, aber nicht berauschend.
Ich kenne Sujata Massey als Autorin der von mir so geliebten Krimireihe um Rei Shimura. Auch bei „The widows of Malabar Hill“ geht es um eine weibliche Ermittlerin, Parveen Mistry in Indien des Jahres 1921. Die Story war nicht schlecht, wir begleiten die Hauptdarstellerin in Bombay bei den Ermittlungen eines Verbrechens, das sich im Umfeld von 3 Witwen des verstorbenen muslimischen Geschäftsmannes Omar Farid abspielt. Nebenschauplatz der Handlung ist außerdem Perveens privates Drama um die traumatisierende Ehe mit ihrem Mann Cyrus Sodawalla. Der Funke ist bei mir leider nicht übergesprungen. Aber ich werde es bei Gelegenheit mit dem 2. Band der sechsteiligen Reihe versuchen, vielleicht kann dieser mich noch überzeugen. Die Bücher sind bisher nur in englischer Sprache erschienen.
Description
This Deluxe Paperback Edition features: an interview with the author, discussion questions, essays on the real-life inspirations behind the novel, delicious recipes taken from the story, and previews of The Satapur Moonstone.
Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Armed with a legal education from Oxford, Perveen also has a tragic personal history that makes women's legal rights especially important to her.
Mistry Law has been appointed to execute the will of Mr. Omar Farid, a wealthy Muslim mill owner who has left three widows behind. But as Perveen examines the paperwork, she notices something strange: all three of the wives have signed over their full inheritance to a charity. What will they live on? Perveen is suspicious, especially since one of the widows has signed her form with an X—meaning she probably couldn't even read the document. The Farid widows live in full purdah—in strict seclusion, never leaving the women's quarters or speaking to any men. Are they being taken advantage of by an unscrupulous guardian? Perveen tries to investigate, and realizes her instincts were correct when tensions escalate to murder. Now it is her responsibility to figure out what really happened on Malabar Hill, and to ensure that no innocent women or children are in further danger.
Inspired in part by the woman who made history as India's first female attorney, The Widows of Malabar Hill is a richly wrought story of multicultural 1920s Bombay as well as the debut of a sharp new sleuth.
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Posts
Kurzweilig, aber nicht berauschend.
Ich kenne Sujata Massey als Autorin der von mir so geliebten Krimireihe um Rei Shimura. Auch bei „The widows of Malabar Hill“ geht es um eine weibliche Ermittlerin, Parveen Mistry in Indien des Jahres 1921. Die Story war nicht schlecht, wir begleiten die Hauptdarstellerin in Bombay bei den Ermittlungen eines Verbrechens, das sich im Umfeld von 3 Witwen des verstorbenen muslimischen Geschäftsmannes Omar Farid abspielt. Nebenschauplatz der Handlung ist außerdem Perveens privates Drama um die traumatisierende Ehe mit ihrem Mann Cyrus Sodawalla. Der Funke ist bei mir leider nicht übergesprungen. Aber ich werde es bei Gelegenheit mit dem 2. Band der sechsteiligen Reihe versuchen, vielleicht kann dieser mich noch überzeugen. Die Bücher sind bisher nur in englischer Sprache erschienen.