Jasmine
€16.45
Product Information
| ISBN | 9781853812781 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bharati Mukherjee |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.178 |
| Publishing Date | 16/05/1991 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €15.52 |
| Tax | €0.93 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €16.45 |
| Availability | 3 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
When Jasmine Vijh is suddenly widowed at seventeen, she seems fated to a future of quiet isolation in a small Indian village. But, voracious for life, she flees to America. Six years on she has become Jane Ripplemeyer, resident of Iowa, married to a middle-aged banker and adoptive mother of a Vietnamese refugee.
Jasmine''s odyssey through America, rippling with energy and daring, reflects Mukherjee''s preoccupation with the fractured lives of exiles and immigrants caught up in a painful yet exhilarating cross-cultural metamorphosis. In this uncompromising novel that draws on all the strengths of the award-winning The Middleman and Other Stories and carries them to a new level of perception and intensity, Bharati Mukherjee has given us a heroine''s ''greedy with wants and reckless with hope'' - and leaves us breathless with surprise.