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A spiced fusion of erotica and cultural narrative.

If you're looking to delve into a narrative that combines the excitement of erotic fiction with the depth of cultural exploration, "Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows" might just be your next page-turner. It's not just about the sensual tales; it's about women finding their voice in a society that often silences them. You'll get engrossed in how their shared stories become acts of rebellion and liberation, painting a vivid image of a community at a crossroads of tradition and modernity.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

Regular price $12.90
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ISBN: 9780008209896
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Date of Publication: 2017-03-09
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.93
(rated by 99074 readers)

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A lively, sexy, and thought-provoking East-meets-West story about community, friendship, and women’s lives at all ages—a spicy and alluring mix of Together Tea and Calendar Girls. Every woman has a secret life. Nikki lives in cosmopolitan West London, where she tends bar at the local pub. The daughter of Indian immigrants, she’s spent most of her twenty-odd years distancing herself from the traditional Sikh community of her childhood, preferring a more independent (that is, Western) life. When her father’s death leaves the family financially strapped, Nikki, a law school dropout, impulsively takes a job teaching a "creative writing" course at the community center in the beating heart of London’s close-knit Punjabi community. Because of a miscommunication, the proper Sikh widows who show up are expecting to learn basic English literacy, not the art of short-story writing. When one of the widows finds a book of sexy stories in English and shares it with the class, Nikki realizes that beneath their white dupattas, her students have a wealth of fantasies and memories. Eager to liberate these modest women, she teaches them how to express their untold stories, unleashing creativity of the most unexpected—and exciting—kind. As more women are drawn to the class, Nikki warns her students to keep their work secret from the Brotherhood, a group of highly conservative young men who have appointed themselves the community’s "moral
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A spiced fusion of erotica and cultural narrative.

If you're looking to delve into a narrative that combines the excitement of erotic fiction with the depth of cultural exploration, "Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows" might just be your next page-turner. It's not just about the sensual tales; it's about women finding their voice in a society that often silences them. You'll get engrossed in how their shared stories become acts of rebellion and liberation, painting a vivid image of a community at a crossroads of tradition and modernity.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.