The book is a translation of a novel by Krishna Baldev Vaid,a pre-eminent author of Hindi stories, novels, and dramas. dedicated to hard-working women domestics, The Diary of a Maidservant delineates the life and thoughts of Shanti, a young woman who earns a living as a casual household help. Through the 'diary', given as a gift to Shanti, the teenage maidservant slowly discovers her impulses, dreams, and contradictions, and the reader is gradually drawn into the complications of everyday relationships between masters and servants and men and women.
- ISBN10 0195691997
- ISBN13 9780195691993
- Publish Date 30 August 2007
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 June 2010
- Publish Country IN
- Imprint OUP India
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 286
- Language English