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.

Desirable Daughters: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

MUKHERJEE, Bharati

Literary

Hyperion

Tree Bride

The Holder of the World

Flawless hardcover book from 1993, published in London, we have added a mylar cover over the mint jacket, to make it even nicer.!!!

Genre Fiction

HarperCollins Publishers,Inc.

Leave It To Me

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Alfred.A. Knopf

They are three Calcutta-born sisters―intelligent, artistic and extremely independent. Born into a wealthy Brahmin family presided over by their doting father and his traditionalist mother, the girls feel strangled by a society with little regard for young women. Rebelling against family and convention, the girls’ heads and hearts take them in very different directions, where, in a clash of wills and circumstances, the inexorable bonds of their sisterhood will be tested as never before.
At the heart of this remarkable new novel by the award-winning author of The Middleman and Other Stories and Jasmine are the interwoven threads of culture, identity and family loyalty. In the tradition of The Joy Luck Club in its honest and compelling portrayal of the immigrant experience, Desirable Daughters is an unputdownable read.

Desirable Daughters

Harper-perennial

Tara Chatterjee, the heroine of Desirable Daughters, isback and ready to embark on the most universal of journeys: a search for herroots. The Calcutta-born but very much American Tara must trace the story of hergreat-great-aunt, Tara Lata. Her search takes her deep into her family history―andinto the history of her ancestral village―unearthing discoveries that aresurprising, shocking and ultimately cathartic. 
Bharati Mukherjee, long recognized for her elegant, evocativeprose and her sophisticated characters― influenced by ancient customs yetanchored in modern times―has conjured another lively story that will leavereaders longing for the world they have left.

"An amazing literary feat and a masterpiece of storytelling. Once again, Bharati Mukherjee proveshe is one of our foremost writers, with the literary muscles to weave both the future and the past into a tale that is singularly intelligent and provocative."--AMY TANThis is the remarkable story of Hannah Easton, a unique woman born in the American colonies in 1670, "a person undreamed of in Puritan society." Inquisitive, vital and awake to her own possibilities, Hannah travels to Mughal, India, with her husband, and English trader. There, she sets her own course, "translating" herself into the Salem Bibi, the white lover of a Hindu raja.It is also the story of Beigh Masters, born in New England in the mid-twentieth century, an "asset hunter" who stumbles on the scattered record of her distant relative's life while tracking a legendary diamond. As Beigh pieces together details of Hannah's journeys, she finds herself drawn into the most intimate and spellbinding fabric of that remote life, confirming her belief that with "sufficient passion and intelligence, we can decontrsuct the barriers of time and geography...."From the Trade Paperback edition.

Harpercollins Publisher

Leave It to Me

Contemporary

Vintage

A COLLECTION OF STORIES FROM A FASCINATING WRITER WHO DEPICTS THE LIVES OF INDIAN MEN AND WOMEN AT HOME AND AS IMMIGRANTS. MUKHERJEE RECENTLY WON THE GOLD FICTION PRIZE AT THE CANADIAN NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARDS FOR "THE WORLD ACCORDING TO HSU." THIS STORY IS INCLUDED IN "DARKNESS".

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