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The Immigrant

The Immigrant

by Manju Kapur (Author)

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    Paperback 2009

    $3.29
Synopsis

Nina is a thirty-year-old English lecturer in New Delhi, living with her widowed mother and struggling to make ends meet. Ananda has recently emigrated to Halifax, Canada; having spent his twenties painstakingly building his career, he searches for something to complete his new life. When Ananda's sister proposes an arranged marriage between the two, Nina is uncertain: can she really give up her home and her country to build a new life with a husband she barely knows? The consequences of change are far greater than she could have imagined. As the two of them struggle to adapt to married life, Nina's whole world is thrown into question. And as she discovers truths about her husband - both sexual and emotional - her fragile new life in Canada begins to unravel. Tender and compelling, "The Immigrant" is an honest exploration of a marriage, what it costs to start again - and what we can never leave behind.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 352
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 03 Dec 2009
ISBN 10: 0571244076
ISBN 13: 9780571244072
Book Overview: The Immigrant by Manju Kapur is a poignant, intimate and compelling new novel about starting anew and leaving the familiar behind, from the author of Home, A Married Woman and Difficult Daughters.

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. Her second novel A Married Woman was called fluent and witty in the Independent, while her third, Home, was described as engaging, glistening with detail and emotional acuity in the Sunday Times.