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by Parul Kapur
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Availability:In StockContributor:Parul KapurSeries:The James Alan McPherson Prize for the NovelPublish date:2024-03-01Pages:358
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9781496236784ISBN-10:1496236785UPC:9781496236784Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, World Literature, HistoricalBook Topic:India, 20th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.1618Product ID:SC42ZVATPR
Winner of the AWP Prize for the Novel
Ms. Magazine's Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2024
Named to Brown Girl Bookshelf's List of 24 Books to Read in 2024
2024 American Fiction Award Winner in Literary Fiction
2024 American Fiction Award Finalist in Multicultural Fiction
2024 New American Voices Award Longlist
Center for Fiction's 2024 First Novel Prize Longlist

In 1950s Bombay, Jaya Malhotra studies medicine at the direction of her father, a champion of women's education who assumes the right to choose his daughters' vocations. A talented painter drawn to the city's dynamic new modern art movement, Jaya is driven by her desire to express both the pain and extraordinary force of life of a nation rising from the devastation of British rule. Her twin sister, Kamlesh, a passionate student of Bharata Natyam dance, complies with her father's decision that she become a schoolteacher while secretly pursuing forbidden dreams of dancing onstage and in the movies.

When Jaya moves out of her family home to live with a woman mentor, she suffers grievous consequences as a rare woman in the men's domain of art. Not only does her departure from home threaten her family's standing and crush her reputation; Jaya loses a vital connection to Kamlesh.

Winner of the AWP Prize for the Novel, Parul Kapur's Inside the Mirror is set in the aftermath of colonialism, as an impoverished India struggles to remake itself into a modern state. Jaya's story encompasses art, history, political revolt, love, and women's ambition to seize their own power.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9781496236784ISBN-10:1496236785UPC:9781496236784Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, World Literature, HistoricalBook Topic:India, 20th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.1618Product ID:SC42ZVATPR
Parul Kapur was born in Assam, India, grew up in the United States, and lives in Atlanta. She is a fiction writer, journalist, and literary critic whose writing has appeared in a number of publications, including Ploughshares, Pleiades, the New Yorker, Art in America, Guernica, Los Angeles Review of Books, and the Paris Review. Kapur holds an MFA from Columbia University and has received fellowships from the Hambidge Center and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts.

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

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