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Difficult Daughters

Difficult Daughters

by Manju Kapur (Author)

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    Paperback 1999

    $3.97

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    Paperback 1998

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Synopsis

The reformist fervour Virmati's family lives by is shattered when she falls in love with a married professor. Ironically, she only met him because earlier generations had fought to unlock the echelons of higher education for the women of the Punjab.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 288
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 07 Jun 1999
ISBN 10: 0571195695
ISBN 13: 9780571195695

Media Reviews
This is a skilful, enticing first novel by an Indian writer who prefers reality to magic realism. Manju Kapur's sensuous pages re-create an intimate world where family groups sleep in the open air on the roof and wash themselves in the yard in the dewy cool of morning, where love-making is furtive and urgent because another wife may be listening, and women's lives move to a complex choreography of cooking, washing, weaving and mending, growing, picking, chopping and blending...This book offers a completely imagined, aromatic, complex world, a rare thing in first novels. --Maggie Gee, Sunday Times Kapur's book is steeped in exquisite melancholy. -- Guardian Kapur writes with quiet intelligence and wry, deadpan humour. Set against the bloody backdrop of Partition, this is a powerful portrait of a society where shame is more important than grief, pragmatism goes hand-in-hand with superstition, and a pregnant wife has to share a bed with her mother-in-law. -- Observer An urgent and important story about family and partitions and love. --Vikram Chandra
Author Bio
Manju Kapur lives in New Delhi, where she is a teacher of English literature at Miranda House College, Delhi University. Her first novel, Difficult Daughters, received tremendous international acclaim, won the Commonwealth Prize for First Novels (Eurasia Section), and was a number one bestseller in India.