The holder of the world

Mukherjee, Bharati

ISBN 10: 0006479421 / ISBN 13: 9780006479420

Published by Harpercollins Publisher, 1995

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Bibliographic Details

Title: The holder of the world

Publisher: Harpercollins Publisher

Publication Date: 1995

Binding: Soft cover

Book Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis:

"An amazing literary feat and a masterpiece of storytelling. Once again, Bharati Mukherjee prove
she is one of our foremost writers, with the literary muscles to weave both the future and the past into a tale that is singularly intelligent and provocative."
--AMY TAN
This is the remarkable story of Hannah Easton, a unique woman born in the American colonies in 1670, "a person undreamed of in Puritan society." Inquisitive, vital and awake to her own possibilities, Hannah travels to Mughal, India, with her husband, and English trader. There, she sets her own course, "translating" herself into the Salem Bibi, the white lover of a Hindu raja.
It is also the story of Beigh Masters, born in New England in the mid-twentieth century, an "asset hunter" who stumbles on the scattered record of her distant relative's life while tracking a legendary diamond. As Beigh pieces together details of Hannah's journeys, she finds herself drawn into the most intimate and spellbinding fabric of that remote life, confirming her belief that with "sufficient passion and intelligence, we can decontrsuct the barriers of time and geography...."
From the Trade Paperback edition.

About the Author:

Bharati Mukherjee is a professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley.