TY - BOOK AU - Desai,Anita TI - The village by the sea: an Indian family story SN - 0435125257 PY - 1982/// CY - Melbourne PB - Heinemann KW - Families KW - India KW - Juvenile fiction. KW - Brothers and sisters KW - Poverty N2 - Lila is thirteen and her brother Hari only twelve, yet as the eldet children of a poor Indian family they have to cope when their parents cannot support them. Hari leaves the village to find work in the teeming city of Bombay, while Lila looks after her younger sisters and sick mother. They both have different challenges to face in this absorbing of life ij a rapidly changing country. ER -