The Sandalwood Tree

11 hrs. 56 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Ellie Newmark

Narrator Larisa Luganskaya

Description

1947. Eve arrives with her husband and five-year-old son in the Indian village of Masurla. Her husband Martin is about to witness the historic departure of the British from India and the partition of the country, while Eve must settle into a new life in an old colonial bungalow and try to mend the cracks that formed in their marriage. But from the very beginning, everything goes nothing like Eve imagined. India is too exotic, Martin drifts farther and farther away, and Eve spends entire days with her little son Billy. Bored and longing, Eve tidies the house and unexpectedly discovers a hiding place—with a bundle of letters inside. Intrigued, Eve deciphers the elaborate Victorian handwriting and soon finds herself in the power of the story of the former inhabitants of the old house—two young English girls who had lived there in almost total isolation almost a hundred years ago. It seems some secret is hidden here. Eve tries to uncover it, and the deeper she sinks into someone else’s past, the more clearly she understands her own present.

In this panoramic novel, personal histories are interwoven with the tragic events of the twentieth century and the nineteenth.