The Village Clock
Mahmood, Arshud![The Village Clock](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/456/45663300/CHSBZCOP0345663300.jpg)
In The Village Clock, Arshud Mahmood takes us inside a remotely beautiful world, a rural village in India under British colonial rule. How distant the empire seems! In one story, a young government clerk forsakes his desk job for a less remunerative one that allows him to be outdoors. In another, on her wedding day, a bride's family insults the family of the groom by presenting a marriage contract that suggests a lack of faith in the groom's d...