The Last Devadasi: A Novel by Barbara L. Baer
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About the bookAbout the authorOrder

Barbara L. Baer received her BA and MA at Stanford University before going to South India to teach and study dance. 

She has reviewed classical and contemporary dance for newspapers and periodicals in America and France. 

Credits include fiction in Redbook and reportage for The Nation

She lives in Sonoma County, California, where she and her husband,  Michael, who is also a writer, cultivate pomegranates and olives.



Barbara L. Baer
Books by Barbara L. Baer
Barbara L. Baer
The Ice Palace Waltz
The Ice Palace Waltz
Two Jewish immigrant families—the rough and ready Western pioneers and the smooth, “our crowd” New Yorkers—come together in a riveting family saga amid the financial and social tumult of early twentieth century America. 
The Ballet Lover
The Ballet Lover
The Ballet Lover exposes the beauty and cruelty of ballet, the performances, the back stage moments, and the personal dramas of the famous ballet dancers Rudolph Nureyev and Natalia Makarova as seen through the eyes of an American female journalist.
The Last Devadasi
The Last Devadasi
Passionate and forbidden love clashes with tradition and caste in a changing India.