The Hills of Angheri

Author: Kavery NambisanPublisher: PenguinYear: 2005Language: EnglishPages: 393ISBN/UPC (if available): 0143032712 DescriptionFor as long as Nalli can remember, the guardians of her village of Angheri, the hills that have so often come alive in her grandfather’s stories, have been asking her to do something with her life.Twelve-year-old Nalli is restless to pursue a dream rather unusual for a girl in her traditional society: she wants to be a doctor. After all, how else will she stand by Jai-her friend and hero-when he returns as a qualified surgeon to start Angheri’s very own hospital? Adamantly resisting all the objections her family raises, Nalli travels to Madras and then to London to study, and experiences a world she had never imagined. She learns to keep her voice down and sit with her knees together, is haunted by Subbu, the first human cadaver she cuts up, and encounters complicated medical cases that test her faith in the values Appa taught her to live by and her own skills as