Vintage, Toronto, 2000, 9^th pr.  ISBN 0-676-97318-3.  Trade soft cover, 517+ pages.  Very good minus; light edge and cover wear, tiny corner bends and curls, faint lower front corner crease.  Interior clean and unmarked with tanning pages; some straightened corner bends.  ‘It’s 1937, and with her father in debt, motherless 16-year-old Roop learns she is to become the second wife of Sardarji, a wealthy Sikh landowner whose first wife, Satya, has failed to bear him a child. ...  Mortified when Sardarji marries Roop, Satya resorts to desperate measures to maintain her place in society and her husband’s heart.  Sardarji himself struggles as the India he knows begins to change when separatist tensions between Hindus and Muslims trap the Sikhs in a horrifying middle ground, and the departing British prepare to divide the land into India and Pakistan.’ (from rear wrap)