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Bharati mukherjees desirable daughters is a stunning novel that combines serious, literary exploration of issues of identity and ethinicity in a multicultural world with mystery, adventure and cutting social commentary. A longtime resident of atlanta, she splits her time between the kitchen and the living room. The only thing i found enjoyable about this book is that it went into some detail about indian culture and idiology, which i must admit is. With her debut novel, madras on rainy days, samina ali makes a bold entrance on the scene of american immigrant literature. Mukherjee is absolutely brilliant up to this point, and manages to pull off potentially melodramatic material in a sensitive, believable manner. Dec 30, 2002 bharati mukherjees desirable daughters is a stunning novel that combines serious, literary exploration of issues of identity and ethinicity in a multicultural world with mystery, adventure and cutting social commentary. Publication date 2002 topics women, sisters, large type books publisher. Diasporic identity in bharati mukherjees desirable. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus. Books similar to desirable daughters desirable daughters. Desirable daughters by bharati mukherjee, paperback.
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Bharati mukherjee is writing achingly compassionate, ravishingly beautiful, absolutely essential books. The good daughters the good daughters audiobook, by joyce maynard. The novel desirable daughters by bharati mukherjee english. Robert olen butler her most thoughtful, emotionally detailed book yet. She lived in a house crowded with 40 or 50 relatives until she was eight, when her fathers career brought the family to live in london for several years. Bharati mukherjee runs the west coast offense powells books. So she is shocked when her babysitter, emira tucker, is confronted. Desirable daughters by bharati mukherjee goodreads. Bharati mukherjees desirable daughters is yet another example of this authors unusual talent, an approach to storytelling that is at first deceptively simple but builds into a skillful and complicated portrayal of indianamerican life. Bharati mukherjee is the author of seven novels most recently desirable daughters and the tree bride, two collections of short stories darkness and the middleman and other stories, and the coauthor, with clark blaise, of two books of nonfiction days and nights in calcutta and the sorrow and the terror. Buy desirable daughters new edition by mukherjee, bharati isbn.
For these reasons, desirable daughters is a refreshing addition to the canon of contemporary indian literature. In language that is at once lyrical and unsentimental, she explores both the upside and the downside of being a first generation muslim indoamerican woman, trapped between the demands of competing cultural heritages. Desirable daughters by bharati mukherjee librarything. Desirable daughters bharati mukherjee hyperion hardcover 310 pages april 2002. The last part of the novel is a kind of spiritual windup which attempts to tie the strands of fate, sexual secrets, sexuality and female abuse together. Find books like desirable daughters from the worlds largest community of readers. A story based on the life of freed slave and author phillis wheatley daughters of the faith series, courage to run. The major flaw of this novel is the contrived fullcircle ending. A story of choices and events so intimate i felt i was part of it. Desirable daughters employs unusual amounts of autobiographical material in an immigrant novel of selfdiscovery that combines elements of fairytalelike myth with a suspenseful mysterythriller. What begins as a piece of family lore, the tale of an ancestor known as a treebride, finds. The three sisters, who are the daughters of motilal bhattacharjee and the greatgrand daughters of jaikrishna gangooly, belong to a traditional bengali brahmin family. Browse bharati mukherjees bestselling audiobooks and newest titles.
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