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The Holder Of The World
The Holder Of The World
Author: Bharati Mukherjee
This is the remarkable story of Hannah Easton, a unique woman born in the American colonies in 1670, "a person undreamed of in Puritan society." Inquisitive, vital and awake to her own possibilities, Hannah travels to Mughal, India, with her husband, and English trader. There, she sets her own course, "translating" herself in...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780449909669
ISBN-10: 0449909662
Publication Date: 8/9/1994
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Ballantine Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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This book is amazing. It takes a lot of suspension of reality to get through because the first part assumes that time-travel is scientifically possible. However, that doesn't last long and if you can get through it (I'm not a big sci-fi person, so it was hard for me) the actual historical part is amazing. It not only focuses greatly on the role of women in the colonial time period, but it also focuses on the hypocrisy on colonization and the power that women still had despite their disadvantage of sex. Also interesting is the fear that the white colonizers had of their whitge women being lured away by the "black" native and tainting her.


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