摘要:Nectar In A Sieve by Kamala Markandaya is a relatively short novel that introduces the complexities of the life of rural people in India, and the tensions generated to their life because of modernization and industrial progress and by the socio-economic changes that occurred during the country's British colonization. It is the story of an arranged but loving marriage and rural life of peasants in India who hopefully try to way-out the problems of phenomenal change, that created disturbance in their peaceful life, with indomitable human spirit and finally overcome poverty and unending misfortune. It is also a novel about the conflicts between a traditional agricultural culture and a burgeoning industrial capitalistic society