The Tree Bride - Hardcover

Mukherjee, Bharati

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1401300588 ISBN 13: 9781401300586

Publisher: Hachette Books, 2004

Synopsis

National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Bharati Mukherjee has long been known not only for her elegant, evocative prose but also for her characters--influenced by ancient customs and traditions but also very much rooted in modern times. In The Tree Bride, the narrator, Tara Chatterjee (whom readers will remember from Desirable Daughters), picks up the story of an East Bengali ancestor. According to legend, at the age of five Tara Lata married a tree and eventually emerged as a nationalist freedom fighter. In piecing together her ancestor's transformation from a docile Bengali Brahmin girl-child into an impassioned organizer of resistance against the British Raj, the contemporary narrator discovers and lays claim to unacknowledged elements in her 'American' identity. Although the story of the Tree Bride is central, the drama surrounding the narrator, a divorced woman trying to get back with her husband, moves the novel back and forth through time and across continents.

About this title

Review:

"A beautiful piece of literary fiction on its own."

About the Author:

Bharati Mukherjee is the author of five novels, two non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories, including The Middleman and Other Stories, for which she won the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is a professor of English at the University of California Berkeley.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hachette Books
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1401300588
• ISBN 13: 9781401300586
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 402