Desirable Daughters - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Bharati MukherjeeTheme:Ethnic Orientation/Indian, Sex & Gender/Feminine, Topical/Coming of Age, Topical/FamilyPublish date:3/27/2002Pages:310
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Hyperion BooksISBN-13:9780786865987ISBN-10:0786865989UPC:9780786865987Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Coming of Age, Cultural Heritage, WomenSize:9.14 x 7.16 x 0.99 inchesWeight:0.568Product ID:SCB0R9MHCJ
At the heart of this remarkable new novel by the award-winning author of The Middleman and Other Stories and Jasmine are issues of culture, identity, and familial loyalty. Comparable to The Joy Luck Club in its honest portrayal of the American immigrant experience, Desirable Daughters follows the diverging paths taken by three Calcutta-born sisters as they come of age in a changing world. Tara, Padma, and Parvati were born into a wealthy Brahmin family presided over by their doting father and his traditionalist mother. Intelligent and artistic, the girls are nevertheless constrained by a society with little regard for women. Their subsequent rebellion will lead them in different directions, to different continents, and through different circumstances that strain yet ultimately strengthen their relationship. Moving effortlessly between generations, Mukherjee weaves together fascinating stories of the sisters' ancestors, their childhood memories, and dramatic scenes from India's history.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Hyperion BooksISBN-13:9780786865987ISBN-10:0786865989UPC:9780786865987Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Coming of Age, Cultural Heritage, WomenSize:9.14 x 7.16 x 0.99 inchesWeight:0.568Product ID:SCB0R9MHCJ
Bharati Mukherjee is the author of five novels, two non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories, including The Middleman and Other Stories, for which she won the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is a professor of English at the University of California Berkeley.
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