Historias Eroticas Para Viudas del Punyab / Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows: Nutrition, Meditation, Exercise, and Talent

A ratos erotica, a ratos romantica, esta deliciosa historia de mujeres que desafian las estructuras patriarcales es fascinante.

Kirkus Reviews

A los veintidos anos, Nikki, una joven inglesa de origen hindu, ha conseguido dar la espada a las tradiciones familiares y tiene muy claro que es ella quien debe escoger, tanto sus empleos como sus novios. Por eso, en un arranque de entusiasmo, acepta el puesto de profesora en un curso de escritura creativa para viudas del Punyab que se impartira en el centro social de Southall.

Desde el primer dia, en cuanto queda claro que el variopinto grupo de mujeres que acude al curso no tiene el menor interes en la escritura creativa convencional, Nikki tendra que arreglarselas para seguir adelante al frente de una clase mucho mas discola de lo que habria imaginado. Un libro de relatos eroticos sera la clave para terminar inspirando a las alumnas para que escriban sus propios cuentos. Historias sacadas de la imaginacion o de la realidad, que van tinendo las clases de complicidad y diversion, pero que tambien van sacando a la luz los secretos de unas mujeres que han callado durante demasiado tiempo, por mucho que esto le pese al resto de la comunidad.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A lively, sexy, and thought-provoking East-meets-West story about community, friendship, and women's lives at all ages--a spicy and alluring mix of Together Tea and Calendar Girls.

Every woman has a secret life . . .

Nikki lives in cosmopolitan West London, where she tends bar at the local pub. The daughter of Indian immigrants, she's spent most of her twenty-odd years distancing herself from the traditional Sikh community of her childhood, preferring a more independent (that is, Western) life. When her father's death leaves the family financially strapped, Nikki, a law school dropout, impulsively takes a job teaching a "creative writing" course at the community center in the beating heart of London's close-knit Punjabi community.

Because of a miscommunication, the proper Sikh widows who show up are expecting to learn basic English literacy, not the art of short-story writing. When one of the widows finds a book of sexy stories in English and shares it with the class, Nikki realizes that beneath their white dupattas, her students have a wealth of fantasies and memories. Eager to liberate these modest women, she teaches them how to express their untold stories, unleashing creativity of the most unexpected--and exciting--kind.

As more women are drawn to the class, Nikki warns her students to keep their work secret from the Brotherhood, a group of highly conservative young men who have appointed themselves the community's "moral police." But when the widows' gossip offers shocking insights into the death of a young wife--a modern woman like Nikki--and some of the class erotica is shared among friends, it sparks a scandal that threatens them all.