Novel set in KENT, LONDON, PARIS
The Last Devadasi
Location(s): Chennai (Madras)
Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
Era(s): 1970s
Madras (Chennai) 1970s. Kamala Kumari, beautiful and proud, is a Gemini Studio starlet who cannot reveal her caste origins because of the stigma attached to the Devadasis, women who have been dedicated to temple gods and often were forced into becoming concubines for the priests. Kamala can never stop fearing her will be unmasked. She has breaks with her lover, Jules, a Dutch trader, who is jealous of the men she attracts, while he has a need to rescue women in trouble; impulsively he marries a young American dancer and brings her to Madras. With its turbulent passions amid social upheavals, “The Last Devadasi” takes readers on a sensual feast in the 1970s palm-shaded trading city of Madras.
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