6/7/2023 0 Comments A walk across the sunBattling to cope with the breakdown of his marriage and the death of his baby daughter he opts to take a sabbatical and joins an international anti-trafficking group in Mumbai. On the opposite side of the globe, high-flying lawyer Thomas Clarke has problems of his own. With only their faith, memories and one another to cling to, the girls find solace and build some resilience to their abuse and seedy surroundings that is until they are separated. Orphaned and alone, the sisters are abducted and subsequently sold before being plunged into the disturbing world of human trafficking and sexual slavery. The brutal attack, from which the young woman died 13 days later, made headlines across the world and raised pertinent questions about India’s patriarchal societies and how it treats its women.Ī Walk Across the Sun tells the story of young sisters Ahalya and Sita, children from a loving and enriching family whose lives and understanding of the world they live in are devastated by a tsunami that hits their coastal village. Although this is a belated review, having been first published in the early part of 2012, A Walk Across the Sun is a book that has become more topical and arguably prophetic since December last year, after an unidentified Indian student was beaten and gang raped in Delhi.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |