ISBN:
9780061373985
,
0061373982
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 175 Seiten
,
21 cm
Edition:
Firstt Harper Perennial edition
Uniform Title:
Ālo-ān̐dhāri
DDC:
305.48/9624092
Keywords:
Hāladāra, Bebī
;
Hāladāra, Bebī
;
Poor women Biography
;
Household employees Biography
;
Femmes pauvres - Inde - Bengale-Occidental - Biographies
;
Employés de maison - Inde - Bengale-Occidental - Biographies
;
Household employees
;
Poor women
;
Autobiographies
;
Biographies
;
Autobiographies
;
Biographies
;
India - West Bengal
Abstract:
When she was very young, Baby Halder was abandoned by her mother and left with a cruel, abusive father. She was married off at twelve to a man twice her age who beat her. At fourteen, she was a mother herself. Her early life was marked by overwhelming challenges and heartbreak until, exhausted and desperate, she fled with her three children to Delhi, to work as a maid in some of the city's wealthiest homes. Expected to serve her employers' every demand, she faced a staggering workload that often left her no time to care for her own children. But she never complained, for such is the lot of the poor in modern-day India. Written without a trace of self-pity, A Life Less Ordinary is a shocking look deep inside a world of poverty and subjugation that few outsiders know about--and an inspiring true story of one remarkable woman's strength, courage, and determination to soar above her circumstances
Note:
Originally published: New York : HarperCollins, ©2007
