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A compelling novel of people and cultures in collision. 'The theme of adjusting to a new culture, the trials, tribulations and traumas that afflict immigrants trying to make it into the new world have been deftly handled... With a combination of malice and charm, irony and sympathy, Mukherjee describes how Tara is pushed to the edges of her old world yet exiled from the new, and how she tries vainly to reconcile the two worlds in her heart.' --The Tribune
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jee is a very fine fiction writer, funny, intelligent, versatile and, on occasion, unexpectedly profound."
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Born in Calcutta, schooled in the states, beautfiul, luminous Tara leaves her American husband behind and journeys back to India. But the place she finds on her return--seething with strikes, riots, and unrest--is vastly different from the place she remembers. In this taut, ironic tale of colliding cultures, Tara seeks to reconcile the old world--that of her father, the redoubtable Bengal Tiger--and the brash new one that is being so violently ushered in.
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THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
Born in Calcutta, schooled in the states, beautfiul, luminous Tara leaves her American husband behind and journeys back to India. But the place she finds on her return--seething with strikes, riots, and unrest--is vastly different from the place she remembers. In this taut, ironic tale of colliding cultures, Tara seeks to reconcile the old world--that of her father, the redoubtable Bengal Tiger--and the brash new one that is being so violently ushered in.
"Tora, a perfectly realized human character, is apt to live in the memory of the reader."
-- Boston Herald
"Mukherjee writes with beautiful precision ... nearly needlepointing a malevolent world."
-- The Village Voice
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- PublisherPenguin Books
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 014009301X
- ISBN 13 9780140093018
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number3
- Number of pages210
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Book Description Paperback. Born in Calcutta and schooled in Poughkeepsie, Madison, Manhattan, beautiful, luminous Tara leaves her American husband behind as she journeys back to India. But the Calcutta she finds on her return -- seething with strikes, riots, and unrest -- is vastly different from the place she remembers. In this taut, ironic tale of colliding cultures, Tara seeks to reconcile the old world -- that of her father, the redoubtable Bengal Tiger -- and the brash new one that is being so violently ushered in. In this, her first novel, Mukherjee claimed as her subject the shock, uneasiness, and haphazard transformation that are part of the immigrant experience -- a theme she has masterfully woven into her subsequent novels, Wife and Jasmine, and into The Middleman and Other Stories, for which she won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Fair to good condition. Tanning on front and back pages and on page edges, inscription at front of book. Some scuffing/rubbing marks on cover. Seller Inventory # 22420927
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