This is the remarkable story ofHannah Easton, a unique woman born in the American colonies in 1670, "aperson undreamed of in Puritan society." Inquisitive, vital and awake toher own possibilities, Hannah travels to Mughal, India, with her husband, andEnglish trader. There, she sets her own course, "translating" herselfinto the Salem Bibi, the white lover of a Hindu raja.
It is also the story of BeighMasters, born in New England in the mid-twentieth century, an "assethunter" who stumbles on the scattered record of her distant relative's lifewhile tracking a legendary diamond. As Beigh pieces together details of Hannah'sjourneys, she finds herself drawn into the most intimate and spellbinding fabricof that remote life, confirming her belief that with "sufficient passionand intelligence, we can decontrsuct the barriers of time andgeography...."

Holder Of The World

Literature & Fiction

Bharati, Mukherjee

Literary

Harper-perennial

Leave It to Me

In her follow-up to the highly acclaimed The Holder of the World, Bharati Mukherjee has written an audacious, often deadpan funny story of a young woman's strong-arm struggle for reinvention against the hammer hold of the past.
Debby DiMartino, saved from death in infancy by Indian nuns, and adopted by loving American parents in Schenectady, New York, can't figure out if she is someone special or just a special kind of misfit. Her quest to track down her biological parents takes her deep into the counterculture of San Francisco and the legacy of Viet Nam, where she becomes "Devi Dee," a woman who begins to discover a past and present that defines her own role in an ultimately shocking, yet compelling universe. A cocky, breakneck-pace read, Leave It to Me is Bharati Mukherjee at her provocative best.
"There is much to puzzle over, and also much to admire, in Mukherjee's in-your-face, zeitgeist-funny, and always disturbing novel." The Globe and Mail
"Šan astute, ironic and merciless insight into an aberrant version of the American dream." Publishers Weekly (Starred review)
"Pain and sorrow, hurt and humiliation, rage and violence Bharati Mukherjee deftly mixes these elements into a disturbing, explosive tale of 1990s AmericaŠ" The Ottawa Citizen
Bharati Mukherjee is the author of six previous novels, including Jasmine and The Middle man and Other Stories (which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1989), and two books of nonfiction, written with her husband, Clark Blaise. Born in Calcutta, she came to the US in 1961 to complete her Master of Fine Arts and Ph.D. She is a professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley.

Leave It To Me

The Sorrow and the Terror

Clark Blaise

Penguin Books, Ltd.

The Situation Of The Story

Joyce Carol Oates

Henry, James

DORIS LESSING

Shirley Jackson

Katherine Anne Porter

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Zora Neale Hurston

Sarah Orne Jewett

RAYMOND CARVER

Estela Portillo Trambley

JOHN UPDIKE

Louise Erdrich

JOHN CHEEVER

EUDORA WELTY

BERNARD MALAMUD

Anna Lee Walters

John Edgar Wideman

Diana Young

George P. Garrett

Ann Beattie

Toni Cade Bambara

Willa, Cather

Lee K. Abbott

Conrad, Aiken

Charles, Johnson

GLORIA NAYLOR

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Anton Pavloviç Çehov

Franz, Kafka

David Herbert, Lawrence

James, Joyce

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Edith, Wharton

Virginia, Woolf

Nathaniel, Hawthorne

Amy, Tan

Mark, Twain

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HERMAN, MELVILLE

Stephen, Crane

Elizabeth Spencer

tillie-olsen

William Goyen

TRUMAN CAPOTE

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Ernest, Hemingway

Ellen Wilbur

REGINALD McKNlGHT

Maria Cruz Viramontes de Marin

Allen Barnett

Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press

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Days and nights in Calcutta

Essays & Correspondence

DOUBLEDAY

Middleman and Other Stories

Contemporary

Virago Press Ltd.

When Jasmine Vijh is widowed in India at 17, she seems fated to a life of isolation in an Indian village. But she flees to America where she becomes Jane Ripplemeyer, resident of Iowa, married and adoptive mother of a Vietnamese refugee. The author also wrote The Middleman and Other Stories .

Jasmine

Virago

Die Träne des Grossmoguls

Knaus, Albrecht

Desirable Daughters is set in America and India equally. It is both the portrait of a traditional Brahmin Indian family and a contemporary story of an American woman who has in many ways broken with the tradition but still remains tied to her native country. An intricate mystery that unfolds throughout this compelling novel, it creates both intrigue and suspense but also initiates a quest for identity.

Desirable Daughters

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Rupa Publications India

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