Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing
Date Published: 2002-08
ISBN-13:9781587242625ISBN:1587242621
Description: Fine. 1587242621 Amazon Review Desirable Daughters, by the prolific writer Bharati Mukherjee, whose short story collection The Middleman won the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award, is a masterful meditation on marriage and family ties. It begins on a fantastic note: on a winter night in an east Bengali village in 1879, the narrator's ancestor, 5-year-old Tara Lata, is married to a tree after her 13-year-old husband-to-be dies of a snakebite on their wedding day. The novel ends some 120 ... read more
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