THE COFFER DAMS: THE COFFER DAMS

by Kamala Markandays

Overview

Clinton, founder and head of a firm of international engineers,arrives in India to build a dam, bringing with him his young wife,Helen, and a strong team of aides and skilled men. They are facedwith a formidable challenge, which involves working in dauntingmountain and jungle terrain, within a time schedule dictated by theextreme tropical weather. Setbacks occur which bring into focusfundamental differences in the attitudes to life and death of theBritish bosses and the Indian workers. A timely reminder of theBritish contempt for Indian lives and for nature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781913109097
Publisher:	HopeRoad Publishing.com
Publication date:	09/30/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	236
File size:	487 KB

About the Author

Kamala Markandaya (1924 – 2004) was born in Mysore, India. She studied history at Madras University and later worked for a small progressive magazine before moving to London in 1948 in pursuit of a career in journalism. There she began writing her novels; Nectar in a Sieve, her first novel published in 1954, was an international bestseller.