Difficult Daughters

Difficult Daughters
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Publisher : Open Road Media
Total Pages : 227
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ISBN-10 : 9781480484504
ISBN-13 : 1480484504
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Book Synopsis Difficult Daughters by : Manju Kapur

Download or read book Difficult Daughters written by Manju Kapur and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the tumult of the 1947 Partition, Manju Kapur’s acclaimed first novel captures a life torn between family, desire, and love The one thing I had wanted was not to be like my mother. Virmati is the eldest of eleven children, born to a respectable family in Amritsar. Her world is shaken when she falls in love with a married man. Charismatic Harish is a respected professor and her family’s tenant. Virmati takes up with Harish and finds herself living alongside his first wife. Set in Amritsar and Lahore and narrated by Virmati and her daughter, Ida, a divorcée on a quest to understand and connect with her departed mother, Difficult Daughters is a stunning tale of motherhood, love, and finding one’s identity in a nation struggling to discover its own. Winner of the 1999 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for best first book (Eurasia Region) and shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award in India.


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