Jasmine
$33.23
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
1 January 2000
Summary
When Jasmine Vijh is suddenly widowed at seventeen, she seems fated to a future of quiet isolation in a small Indian village. But, voracious for life, she flees to America. Six years on she has become Jane Ripplemeyer, resident of Iowa, married to a middle-aged banker and adoptive mother of a Vietnamese refugee.
Jasmine’s odyssey through America, rippling with energy and daring, reflects Mukherjee’s preoccupation with the fractured lives of exiles and immigrants caught in a painful ye…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781853812781 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1853812781 |
| Author: | Bharati Mukherjee |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2000 |
| Weight: | 176g |
| Dimensions: | 133mm x 200mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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Tough and voluptuous…she has tapped a source which she converts to a light so bright it dazzles
An adept chronicler of the times and places where improbable worlds meet…She also captures the moments when lives change, by violence or passion…few could record them with Mukherjee’s clarity, tenderness and humour - Evening Standard
An adept chronicler of the times and places where improbable worlds meet…She also captures the moments when lives change, by violence or passion…few could record them with Mukherjee’s clarity, tenderness and humour - Evening StandardTough and voluptuous…she has tapped a source which she converts to a light so bright it dazzles - Candida McWilliamAbout The Author
Bharati Mukherjee
Bharati Mukherjee has taught creative writing and currently lectures at the University of California in Berkeley. She has written a series of critically acclaimed novels, including Darkness and the Middleman.
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