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''Nectar in a Sieve'' is a 1954 novel by Kamala Markandaya. The novel is set in India during a period of intense urban development and is the chronicle of the marriage between Rukmani, youngest daughter of a village headman, and Nathan, a tenant farmer. The story is told in the first person by Rukmani, beginning from her arranged marriage to Nathan at the age of 12 to his death many years later. ==Title== The title of the novel is taken from the 1825 poem ''Work Without Hope'', by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. An excerpt from the poem is the epigraph of the novel: :''Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve'', :''And hope without an object cannot live.'' In the novel, Rukmani comments, "Change I had known before, and it had been gradual. But the change that now came into my life, into all our lives, blasting its way into our village, seemed wrought in the twinkling of an eye." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nectar in a Sieve」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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