A Father Never Hates His Daughter

Jagadish Kamalakanta Sahani

Beschreibung

Dharitri, 14, lives in a small village with her mother and drunken father, who also has an extramarital affair. Her mother gets sick one day. She takes her mother to a government hospital. Her mother has TB, according to a doctor. Her father takes her to Mumbai, where her uncle resides, after her mother’s death. There in Mumbai, she encounters two men who claim to be her uncle’s good friends. She stays in a lodge, believing them. One morning when she opens her eyes, she finds herself tied up. She asks them, ‘Why have you tied my hands and legs?’ They say, ‘Your father has sold you to us and returned to your village.’ She doesn’t believe them. ‘A father never hates his daughter,’ she says, ‘and my father can’t do this with me.’They eventually sell her to a brothel. Can she escape from there, find her father, and the truth?

Verfügbar seit: 12.11.2022.

Drucklänge: 156 Seiten.

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