Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows: A Novel Free Audiobook Download by Balli Kaur Jaswal
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows: A Novel is a novel that follows the life of a young widow and mother, Mina. It also explores many of the themes that are relevant to our times, including the changing face of India and how women relate to traditional gender roles.
This is a novel composed of short stories that are quite gruesome and dark. They portray the trials and tribulations of female widows in a small town in India. The protagonist, who is called Meera, has an affair with a married man and becomes pregnant by him. When she gets pregnant, his wife returns to find them together. In order to protect her lover's family name, Meera's mother-in-law offers her husband $20,000 as dowry when she dies. The three women struggle to provide for themselves in this world.
It is a story of a widow who lost her husband in the partition riots of 1947. She has to struggle for every day after his death. In times of hardship, she begins writing erotic stories for Punjabi widows. What starts as her secret hobby soon becomes an empire which she rules with an iron hand.
In this book, Jaswal tells the story of a woman named Jugnu who is trying to find her own identity. She is raised in a culture where she doesn't have a name and no one wants to tell her anything about her past. As she searches for herself, she starts to have other desires such as sex and marriage.
The narrator of these sexy stories is a woman named Meera. She tells her listeners her story of how she fell in love with an older man and married him against the wishes of her late husband's family. As time goes on, she realizes that she can't really love this man who is so different from the one she married years ago, and yet she still sees him as a friend. Another man comes into the picture, and then finally her husband dies. The men on both sides of her marriage were no longer interested in her, leaving Meera broken-hearted and suicidal
'Meera Syal' gives a powerful performance as the narrator of 'Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows: A Novel', the first in a series of historical novels set in the late 1800s and early 1900's.
Published Date | 2017-06-13 |
Duration | 10 hours 35 minutes |
Author | Balli Kaur Jaswal |
Narrated | Meera Syal |
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Abridged | No |
Is It Free? | 30-days Free |
Category | Fiction & Literature |
Parent Category | Asian American Literature |