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Cultural Prison : A Daughter's Worth
Paperback Edition: 1
This is the author's first novel.
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Fiji was a new world for many Indians who migrated there as indentured labourers from 1879 to 1916; overtime nothing much changed.
It is the seventies. Saras parents have arranged her marriage and she prepares to leave her job and
the comforts of the city and move to her husbands village. There is no way she could have known then, that her life would change in a such a drastic and permanent way, as it intertwines with Priyas life, touching two generations.destinies. Vindu Maharaj was born to Indian parents in regional town, Labasa, Fiji, in the nineteen-sixties and moved to the capital city of Suva before her first birthday. Growing up in a strict household and being constantly reprimanded, became an everyday battle between her and her parents. Reading was one of her favourite pastimes; she would lose herself into the lives and adventures of the characters in the many books she borrowed from the school library. She dreamed of one day being able to escape her daily problems and have a real-life adventure herself. In the seventies, married at eighteen and having children was the norm amongst Indians in Fiji and she was no exception. She migrated with her family to Sydney, Australia in 1985. She studied business accounting and worked in the banking and airline industry. Years later she decided to give it all up to start writing. Vindu joined the Fellowship of Australian Writers in 2013 and began writing short stories and entertaining pieces, of which ten have been published in the writers' magazine FreeXpression, over a two year period. She has also published some short stories in the group's anthology, Roaring Silence, in 2015. Cultural Prison : A daughter's worth, is her first novel. Featured in the 18 September 2017 New Zealand / Pasifika Newsletter.
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Pages : 390
Publisher : Independently Published
Publication date : 2017-03-01
Subjects: Non-fiction, Medicine, Health And Personal Development