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The tiger's daughter.

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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.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780395127155
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Co.
Location:
Boston
Subject:
Family
Subject:
Young women
Subject:
Psychological fiction
Subject:
Americans
Subject:
East Indian Americans
Subject:
Domestic fiction
Subject:
Family -- India -- Calcutta -- Fiction.
Subject:
Culture shock.
Subject:
Calcutta
Subject:
Bildungsromans
Series Volume:
no. 4
Publication Date:
1972
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
210 p.

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