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Spanning three generations, this story centres around a woman born at the turn of the 20th century into an austere Punjabi family. It tells of an illicit affair and its wider political and social implications - not least, the vexed issue, for Indian women, of marriage versus education.
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"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
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Manju Japur's Difficult Daughters in a stunning repackage of this classic novel of a family torn apart by an illicit love.
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- PublisherFaber & Faber
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0571192890
- ISBN 13 9780571192892
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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