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An extraordinary story of love and espionage, cultural tension and displacement inspired by the life of Noor Inayat Khan – code name “Madeleine†– who worked against the Occupation after the Nazi invasion of France. When her father, the Sufi mystic and musician Hazrat Inayat Khan, dies, Noor is forced to how to her uncle’s religious literalism and ideas of feminine propriety. Yet, while at the Sorbonne, she falls in love with Armand, a Jewish pianist ...
These passionate stories dramatize the lives of Indian women from 1919 to today, from India to North America, and from the closed circle of the family to the wilderness of office and university. These women inhabit silence; by saying little, they can know everything. Some, imprisoned by silence, choke on their knowledge. Some use knowledge with bloody force against their oppressors. And some harness its powers to seize their freedom.