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This is a collection of stories about Indian-born women and girls torn between old and new world values, with ties to tradition and memories of a family at home which still intrude on their new lives in America.
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Review:
"As irresistible as the impulse which leads her characters to surface to maturity, raising their heads above the floods of silver ignorance" (The New York Times Book Review)
"'Ravishingly beautiflu stories...Divakaruni not only conveys emotions with stunning accuracy, she also transforms the outer world into reflections of the soul'" (Booklist)
"'These exquisite stories entice us with the author's gift of storytelling and her characters' originality, independence and insight'" (San Francisco Chronicle)
"'Young and old, male and female, east and west, modern and traditional, all elements blend in this exquisite collection...sensitive, elegant and beautifully descriptive'" (Library Journal)
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"'Ravishingly beautiflu stories...Divakaruni not only conveys emotions with stunning accuracy, she also transforms the outer world into reflections of the soul'" (Booklist)
"'These exquisite stories entice us with the author's gift of storytelling and her characters' originality, independence and insight'" (San Francisco Chronicle)
"'Young and old, male and female, east and west, modern and traditional, all elements blend in this exquisite collection...sensitive, elegant and beautifully descriptive'" (Library Journal)
By the author of The Mistress of Spices
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- PublisherBlack Swan
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0552144770
- ISBN 13 9780552144773
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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