Synopsis:

Born in Calcutta and schooled in the United States, 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.

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Topics/Categories:

Calcutta, Family History, Immigration, Self-Discovery, Women Immigrants

Type of Work:

Book Novel

Publishers:

Ballantine Books

Purchase From:

Powells

Original Publish Date:

1996-09-29

ISBNs:

0449912701

Formats:

Hardcover, Paperback, Mass Market Paperback