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EDITORIAL REVIEW: **In one of the most impressive debuts of the year, Ru Freeman delivers an epic, searing novel about betrayal and salvation, the strength of the human spirit, and the boundlessness and limits of love.** Set against the volatile events of the last forty years of Sri Lankan history, *A Disobedient Girl* traces the lives of three characters whose interwoven fates and histories force them to answer life's most difficult questions. Beautiful, haunting, alive, and brimming with truth, it is, above all, a novel about extraordinary circumstances that change life in an instant and the power of love to transcend time and place. The story begins with two little girls, mistress and servant, one with every luxury and opportunity that money can buy and the other with nothing but her yearning for a better life. Together, they grow up bound by love, betrayal, resentment, and an impossible secret. Then there is Biso, a devoted mother of three, who risks everything to escape from the hands of her tyrannical husband. But her journey, which begins with such hope, takes her on a disastrous path that ultimately leads her to give her life over to strangers she never imagined she would h

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Author

Ru Freeman

Publisher

Washington Square Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781439123560

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Contemporary Fiction

Rating

4.3 / 5 (116 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14