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Days and Nights in Calcutta (A Ruminator Find)
Home and the World: This is one of the most unique travel books I've ever read. The first 165 pages are written by Canadian novelist & short story writer Clark Blaise and are followed by a 115 page section by his wife, Bharati Mukherjee, also a [... more]
$14.00
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Leave It to Me (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Amazon.com Review: India-born author Bharati Mukherjee has long used fiction to explore issues of identity and culture, often through displaced characters--Indians coming to the West (Jasmine) or Westerners heading to Asia (The Holder of the World). In [... more]
$19.00
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Holder of the World
Virtual history: being there: The more I ponder this book, the more intriguing I find the story. Beigh Masters is an "asset-hunter" in search of a legendary diamond from India, The Emperor's Tear. Her research leads to a connection with a [... more]
$13.95
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Desirable Daughters: A Novel
Amazon.com Review: Desirable Daughters, by the prolific writer Bharati Mukherjee, whose short story collection The Middleman won the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award, is a masterful meditation on marriage and family ties. It begins on a fantastic [... more]
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Jasmine
Amazon.com Review: & quto;Lifetimes ago, under a banyan tree in the village of Hasnapur, an astrologer cupped his ear ... and foretold my widowhood and exile," relates Jyoti, fifth cursed daughter in a family of nine. Though she can't escape [... more]
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The Middleman and Other Stories
Amazon.com Review: Told by fictional immigrants, the tales of arrival and survival spun by Mukherjee's protagonists often paralyze the reader with their realism. They come from Italy, Trinidad, Israel, Vietnam, Afghanistan, the Philippines and elsewhere [... more]
$13.00
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Desirable Daughters: A Novel
Amazon.com Review: Desirable Daughters, by the prolific writer Bharati Mukherjee, whose short story collection The Middleman won the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award, is a masterful meditation on marriage and family ties. It begins on a fantastic [... more]
$32.95
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Tree Bride, The
Wow! Great Book!: This book is a continuation of the story started by the author in the novel Desirable Daughters (also a great read). It is the fascinating examination by the main character of the history of her great-aunt, Tara-Ma, who died in police [... more]
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Jasmine
Amazon.com Review: & quto;Lifetimes ago, under a banyan tree in the village of Hasnapur, an astrologer cupped his ear ... and foretold my widowhood and exile," relates Jyoti, fifth cursed daughter in a family of nine. Though she can't escape [... more]
$6.99
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The Tiger's Daughter
Examination of another culture: I had to agree somewhat with the reviewer from Houston, TX, that The Tiger's Daughter is hard to understand in spots. However, having read Jasmine, I can follow her showing the reader the effects of moving from one culture [... more]
$5.99
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Wife
A complex protagonist: Dimple, the main character of "Wife" is portrayed in such a way by Mukherjee that the reader is left wondering about the attitude that he or she develops towards her. Mukherjee takes us deep into the mind of Dimple as she [... more]
$5.99
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Tiger's Daughter
Examination of another culture: I had to agree somewhat with the reviewer from Houston, TX, that The Tiger's Daughter is hard to understand in spots. However, having read Jasmine, I can follow her showing the reader the effects of moving from one culture [... more]
$11.00
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