Difficult Daughters
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Author: Manju Kapur
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 288
Set around the time of Partition and written with absorbing intelligence and sympathy, Difficult Daughters is the story of a young woman torn between the desire for education and the lure of illicit love. 'Kapur's book is steeped in exquisite melancholy.' Guardian 'Difficult Daughters is intensely imagined, fluidly written, moving. Through our struggles with our parents, it flings us into their own momentous times, their youthful yearnings for love and independence and life. And so it becomes an urgent and important story about family and partitions and love.' Vikram Chandra 'This book offers a completely imagined, aromatic, complex world, a rare thing in first novels.' Maggie Gee, Sunday Times
Author: Manju Kapur
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 288
Set around the time of Partition and written with absorbing intelligence and sympathy, Difficult Daughters is the story of a young woman torn between the desire for education and the lure of illicit love. 'Kapur's book is steeped in exquisite melancholy.' Guardian 'Difficult Daughters is intensely imagined, fluidly written, moving. Through our struggles with our parents, it flings us into their own momentous times, their youthful yearnings for love and independence and life. And so it becomes an urgent and important story about family and partitions and love.' Vikram Chandra 'This book offers a completely imagined, aromatic, complex world, a rare thing in first novels.' Maggie Gee, Sunday Times
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.
Author: Manju Kapur
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 288
Set around the time of Partition and written with absorbing intelligence and sympathy, Difficult Daughters is the story of a young woman torn between the desire for education and the lure of illicit love. 'Kapur's book is steeped in exquisite melancholy.' Guardian 'Difficult Daughters is intensely imagined, fluidly written, moving. Through our struggles with our parents, it flings us into their own momentous times, their youthful yearnings for love and independence and life. And so it becomes an urgent and important story about family and partitions and love.' Vikram Chandra 'This book offers a completely imagined, aromatic, complex world, a rare thing in first novels.' Maggie Gee, Sunday Times
Author: Manju Kapur
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 288
Set around the time of Partition and written with absorbing intelligence and sympathy, Difficult Daughters is the story of a young woman torn between the desire for education and the lure of illicit love. 'Kapur's book is steeped in exquisite melancholy.' Guardian 'Difficult Daughters is intensely imagined, fluidly written, moving. Through our struggles with our parents, it flings us into their own momentous times, their youthful yearnings for love and independence and life. And so it becomes an urgent and important story about family and partitions and love.' Vikram Chandra 'This book offers a completely imagined, aromatic, complex world, a rare thing in first novels.' Maggie Gee, Sunday Times
Difficult Daughters
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