Very simply written and the story is beautiful. The whole story takes place in Karnataka. A girl named Mridula comes from a remote village named Aladahalli. She gets to meet a boy who is a practicing doctor in her friends marriage. The boy falls in love with Mridula for her open-ness, innocence and beauty. He proposes her thru' a letter. After a while, she agrees and they get married. The story takes many twists after they get married. You should read it to find how Mridula accomodates herself from that innocence to where people are so mechanical in cities..