May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons by Elisabeth Bumiller

May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons

A Journey Among the Women of India

by Elisabeth Bumiller

Random House, 1990, First edition
Hardcover, dustjacket
ISBN 0394563913

Condition: Very Good
A little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing and bumping to edges, corners and covers, ex-lib with stamp to half title page, stickers and stamps to back endpapers, tape residue on covers, clipped front endpaper.  Dustjacket very good with minor chipping (see photographs)

“A reporter for The Washington Post since 1979, Bumiller went to India with her husband, a correspondent for The New York Times.  Over the next three and a half years she travelled to all parts of the country, examining the paradoxes and – to a Westerner – the often stunning realities of the lives of India’s women in New Delhi and Bombay about their arranged marriages to men with whom they weren’t in love.  She lived in the most impoverished regions of the Indian countryside, where women perform backbreaking labor every day and female babies are often “put to sleep” because their parents cannot afford suitable marriage dowries…”