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Author: Bharati Mukherjee
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780802136305
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter the assassination of her husband, seventeen-year-old Jasmine leaves India to live with a middle-aged banker in a small Iowa town, only to retain some of the traditions and memories of the past.
Author: Nagendra Kumar
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9788126900428
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBharati Mukherjee Is One Of The Major Novelists Of Indian Diaspora Who Have Achieved Enviable Positions Within A Comparatively Short Creative Span. As An Expatriate In The United States, She Has Captured Evocatively The Indian Immigrant Experience In Her Five Novels And Two Collections Of Short-Fiction. The Creative Odyssey That Started With The Tiger S Daughter (1972) And Produced Leave It To Me (1997) Recently Has Kept Her Seriously Involved In Exploring The Complexities Of Cross-Cultural Interactions.The Present Volume Is The First Full-Length Study Of Mukherjee S Creative Corpus From A Cross-Cultural Perspective. The Book, Divided In Six Chapters, Opens With An Exhaustive Account Of The Major Concepts Of Culture And It Ingeniously Traces The Nature Of Formative Influences On Her Psyche In The Second Chapter. Mukherjee S Fiction Has Been Examined In Three Well-Marked Phases Expatriation, Transition, Immigration In Three Substantive Chapters. The Quality Of Cultural Conflict In All Its Multiplicity Forms The Crux Of Her Accomplishments As A Creative Artist. She Has An Esteemed Place In The Luminous Galaxy Of Indian Men Of Letters Writing Abroad With Native Ethos Providing Them A Living Ambience. The Fiction Of Bharati Mukherjee : A Cultural Perspective Marks A Milestone In The Critical Scholarship On The Third World Literature.
Author: Bharati Mukherjee
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Published: 2007-12-01
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 0802196349
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA National Book Critics Circle Award winner and New York Times Notable Book: “intelligent, versatile . . . profound” stories of migration in America (The Washington Post Book World). Illuminating a new world of people in migration that has transformed the essence of America, these collected stories are a dazzling display of the vision of this critically-acclaimed contemporary writer. An aristocratic Filipina negotiates a new life for herself with an Atlanta investment banker. A Vietnam vet returns to Florida, a place now more foreign than the Asia of his war experience. An Indian widow tries to explain her culture’s traditions of grieving to her well-intentioned friends. And in the title story, an Iraqi Jew whose travels have ended in Queens suddenly finds himself an unwitting guerrilla in a South American jungle. Passionate, comic, violent, and tender, these stories draw us into a cultural fusion in the midst of its birth pangs, expressing a “consummated romance with the American language” (The New York Times Book Review).
Author: Bharati Mukherjee
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780449912706
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBorn 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.
Author: Bharati Mukherjee
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 0618646531
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTaken under the wing of an expat teacher for her ambition and talent, Anjali Bose hopes to escape unfavorable prospects and falls in with a crowd of young people in Bangalore, where she endeavors to confront her past and reinvent herself.
Author: Bharati Mukherjee
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781865089409
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmy Tan says of Bharati Mukherjee's previous novel The Holder of the World, 'An amazing literary feat and a masterpiece of storytelling'. Desirable Daughters maintains the strong literary muscle and the tenderness of narrative that we now expect from this prizewinning author.
Author: Bharati Mukherjee
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2011-04-27
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0307792293
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A very fine writer, funny, intelligent, versatile and, on occasion, unexpectedly profound." --The Washington Post Book World "MUKHERJEE IS FEARLESS . . . DARING AND WITTY . . . Take the wild ride with Debby DiMartino from Albany to San Francisco, from lost child to masked avenger." --The Boston Globe "POWERFULLY WRITTEN . . . Debby has no memory of her birth parents. All she knows is that she was born in a remote Indian village, the daughter of a hippie back-packing mother and a mysterious Eurasian father, both of whom have disappeared almost without a trace. . . . Her quest for her biological parents turns into an obsession. . . . Leave It to Me . . . shows Mukherjee at the peak of her craft. . . . Mixing the Greek myth of Electra with the Indian myth of Devi, she sends Devi/Debby careening down on the Bay Area like an elemental force of vengeance." --San Francisco Chronicle "DEVI IS A BRILLIANT CREATION--hilarious, horribly knowing and even more horribly oblivious--through whom Bharati Mukherjee, with characteristic and shameless ingenuity, is laying claim to speak for an America that isn't 'other' at all." --The New York Times Book Review "STUNNING . . . An astute, ironic, and merciless insight into an aberrant version of the American dream." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Author: Bharati Mukherjee
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2011-06-22
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 0307792285
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“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....”
Author: Bharati Mukherjee
Publisher: Fawcett
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDimple Dasgupta had set her heart on marrying a neurosurgeon, but her father was looking for engineers in the matrimonial adds. So begins the wry story of an obedient daughter of middle-class Indian parents who is about to embark on an adventure of a lifetime. Driven first to shock and then to despair, Dimple lives in a waking dream. And when her fantasies take a violent turn, she wonders where wishes end and reality begins. Dimple Dasgupta asserts her identity and independence in the alien and threatening ordeal of life in New York City.
Author: Bharati Mukherjee
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Published: 2023
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781567927474
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Twelve stories of immigrants who struggle against the ancestral past of India to remake their lives-and themselves-in North America. These are stories of fluid and broken identities, discarded languages and deities, the attempt to create bonds with a new community against the ever-present fear of failure and betrayal. 'The narrative of immigration,' Ms. Mukherjee once said, 'is the epic narrative of this millennium.' Her stories and novels brilliantly add to that ongoing saga. In the story, 'The Lady from Lucknow,' a woman is pushed to the limit while wanting nothing more than to fit in. In 'Hindus,' characters discover that breaking away from a culture has deep and unexpected costs. In 'Father,' the clash of cultures leads a man to an act of terrible violence. 'How could he tell these bright, mocking women,' Ms. Mukherjee writes, 'that in the darkness, he sensed invisible presences: gods and snakes frolicked in the master bedroom, little white sparks of cosmic static crackled up the legs of his pajamas. Something was out there in the dark, something that could invent accidents and coincidences to remind mortals that even in Detroit they were no more than mortal.' There is light in these stories as well. The collection's closing story, 'Courtly Vision,' brings to life the world within a Mughal miniature painting and describes a light charged with excitement to discover the immense intimacy of darkness. Readers will also discover that excitement, and the many gradations of darkness and light, throughout these pages from the mind of a master storyteller"
