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The Coffer Dams Kamala Markandaya
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‘The Coffer Dams
is an absorbing tale about mechanical
strength and spiritual weakness, physical certainties and moral doubts. It is set in modern India, but the conflict of values at its heart is universal.’
John Masters, author of Bhowani Junction.
Clinton, founder and head of a firm of international engineers, arrives in India to build a dam, bringing with him his young wife, Helen, and a strong team of aides and skilled men. They are faced with a formidable challenge, which involves working in daunting mountain and jungle terrain, within a time schedule dictated by the extreme tropical weather.
Setbacks occur which bring into focus fundamental differences in the attitudes to life and death of the British bosses and the Indian workers. The Coffer Dams
is timely reminder of the British contempt for Indian lives and for nature.
Fiction | ISBN: 9781913109097 | (ePUB) | Pub: 30/09/2020
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
KAMALA MARKANDAYA (1924 – 2004) was born in Mysore, India. She studied history at Madras University and later worked for a small progressive magazine before moving to London in 1948 in pursuit of a career in journalism. There she began writing her novels; Nectar in a Sieve, her debut published in 1954, was an international bestseller. A contemporary of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and R.K. Narayan, Kamala Markandaya is now being rediscovered as an essential figure in the post-colonial canon.