The Enemy Within (edition 2005)

by Nalini Warriar

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Fiction. Asian Studies. Spanning three decades, THE ENEMY WITHIN is a memorable portrait of a woman caught between worlds. Dreaming of college in the tropical paradise of Kerala, India, seventeen-year-old Sita is married off by her parents to an Indian engineer in Quebec City. Set against the backdrop of Quebec politics, it is the story of a courageous woman who breaks with tradition in search in search of peace and love, only to be betrayed by the man she first loved and the land she has thought of as hers.… (more)

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Title:	The Enemy Within
Authors:	Nalini Warriar
Info:	Toronto: TSAR Publications (2005), Paperback, 297 pages
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"Warriar has created here a life story so engrossing and touching, so rich in evocative detail, and so telling in its condemnation of Quebec’s solipsism that she again deserves our commendation."

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Fiction. Asian Studies. Spanning three decades, THE ENEMY WITHIN is a memorable portrait of a woman caught between worlds. Dreaming of college in the tropical paradise of Kerala, India, seventeen-year-old Sita is married off by her parents to an Indian engineer in Quebec City. Set against the backdrop of Quebec politics, it is the story of a courageous woman who breaks with tradition in search in search of peace and love, only to be betrayed by the man she first loved and the land she has thought of as hers.

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Dreaming of college in the tropical paradise of Kerala, India, seventeen-year-old Sita is married off by her parents to an Indian engineer in Quebec City.

Sita (“La Noire”) in the cold, northern city, Sita learns to love it and begins to change in her ways, her transformation gaining momentum with the death of her daughter Maya. In spite of a cold marriage to an insensitive, dominating man, leaving whom is not an option, she carves out a life and career for herself. But politics and intrigue threaten to suffocate her...

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