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Jasmine
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Bharati Mukherjee
When Jasmine Vijh is widowed in India at 17, she seems fated to a life of isolation in an Indian village. But she flees to America where she becomes Jane Ripplemeyer, resident of Iowa, married and adoptive mother of a Vietnamese refugee. The author also wrote The Middleman and Other Stories .
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Holder of the World
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Bharati Mukherjee
Beigh Masters, descended from the Puritans, lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with an Indian computer scientist named Venn. She comes across the records of an ancestor, Hannah Easton, who was raised in Salem, married an Englishman, traveled with her husband to India, and became mistress to a Raja.
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Middleman and Other Stories
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In these tales told by immigrants trying to make new lives in various American cities, their true search is for empowerment and dignity. Mukherjee's second collection was the winner of the 1988 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.
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Desirable Daughters
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Bharati Mukherjee
Tara Chatterjee, one of three daughters in an upperclass Bengali family in Calcutta, has scandalized the community by divorcing her husband and moving to California. In telling her complex story, Bharati Mukherjee's novel surveys the various strata of Indian society, both at home and in the new world, with their rigid caste divisions and religious ...
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Wife
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Bharati Mukherjee
VERY MUCH A CONTRAST TO MUKHERJEE'S FIRST NOVEL, HER SECOND DESCRIBES DIMPLE DASGUPTA'S ATTEMPTS TO COPE WITH HER LIFE IN AMERICA. HER MARRIAGE ARRANGED TO A RESPECTABLE ENGINEER, DIMPLE IMMIGRATES TO THE U.S., BUT CANNOT ADJUST TO THE FOREIGN AND VIOLENT ENVIRONMENT OF NEW YORK CITY. MORE AND MORE SHE RETREATS FROM REALITY, LIVING IN HER OWN ...
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The Tree Bride
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Bharati Mukherjee
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.
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Days and Nights in Calcutta
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Clark Blaise
An account of a yearlong sojourn in India that balances the viewpoint of a Bengali woman--Bharati Mukherjee--with that of her Western husband, Clark Blaise. Both are well-known writers living in America.
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Tiger's Daughter
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Bharati Mukherjee
Tara, born in Calcutta, India, and educated in Poughkeepsie, New York, returns to her native land and discovers an India quite different from the country she remembered.
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Necessary Fictions
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Barbara Croft, Bharati Mukherjee (Selected by)
Storytelling and art are major themes of this collection. The stories center on the need for expression, the pain of failing in artistic expression, and the ways in which we construct imaginative representations of our lives, the "necessary fictions" that allow us to live. At the heart of the book is a series of three interconnected stories and a ...
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Leave It to Me
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Bharati Mukherjee
This novel of rage and retribution, colonialism and responsibility is set against the multi-cultural backdrop of San Francisco, Vietnam and the Far East. Jess Strand's daughter, Ovidia attempts to exact revenge on her mother for her courtroom betrayal of her father.
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Leave It to Me
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Bharati Mukjerjee, Bharati Mukherjee
The daughter of a flower child and a murderer, adopted as a toddler, sets off on a quest to find her real mother.
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Letters of Transit: Reflections on Exile, Identity, Language, and Loss
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Andre Aciman (Editor)
Five writers who live in the U.S. but were born elsewhere give their views on being an exile: André Aciman, Eva Hoffman, Bharati Mukherjee, Edward Said, and Charles Simic.
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Consuming Desires, C
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Roger Rosenblatt (Editor), Jane Smiley (Editor), Bharati Mukherjee (Editor)
Among the contributors to this volume of essays are fiction writers Jane Smiley and Bharati Mukherjee, social critic Bill McKibben, and film critic Molly Haskell.
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Darkness Angela and Other Stories
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Bharati Mukherjee
A COLLECTION OF STORIES FROM A FASCINATING WRITER WHO DEPICTS THE LIVES OF INDIAN MEN AND WOMEN AT HOME AND AS IMMIGRANTS. MUKHERJEE RECENTLY WON THE GOLD FICTION PRIZE AT THE CANADIAN NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARDS FOR "THE WORLD ACCORDING TO HSU." THIS STORY IS INCLUDED IN "DARKNESS".
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The Killing Spirit: An Anthology of Murder for Hire
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Graham Greene, T Coraghessan Boyle, Bharati Mukherjee
A collection of short stories dealing with the theme of the hired killer.
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The Middle Man and Other Stories: The Middleman, A Wife's Story, Loose End, Orbiting, Fighting for the Rebound, The Tenant, Fathering, Jasmine, Danny's Girls; Buried Lives, The Management of Grief
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Bharati Mukherjee
The text is a collection of erotic stories and a novella from the author of "Darkness". Many of these have not been previously published. However, those which have appeared in publications such as 'Mother Jones' and 'Playboy'.
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Darkness
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Bharati Mukherjee
These 12 stories, set in Canada and the U.S., are about immigrants from the subcontinent who are desperately trying to cope with an alien way of life.
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Regionalism in Indian Perspective
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Bharati Mukherjee
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Political Culture and Leadership in India: A Study of West Bengal
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Conversations with Bharati Mukherjee
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Bharati Mukherjee, Bradley C Edwards (Editor)
The first naturalized citizen to win the National Book Critics Circle Award, Bharati Mukherjee (b. 1940), born into a rigid hierarchy as a Bengali Brahmin and raised in the elite of Calcutta society, joined the American masses by choice. This journey from a privileged yet circumscribed life to one of free will and risk supplied the experiences she ...
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Le Conquèrant Du Monde
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