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21%OFFBharati Mukherjee - Jasmine - 9781853812781 - V9781853812781
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Jasmine

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Description for Jasmine Paperback. Jasmine Vijh, widowed in India at 17, flees to America. This is the story of her daring travels, her painful yet exhilarating cross-cultural metamorphosis and, eventually, the home she finds in Iowa where she accepts how inextricably her fate has become part of America's. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 184.

When Jasmine Vijh is suddenly widowed at seventeen, she seems fated to a future of quiet isolation in a small Indian village. But, voracious for life, she flees to America. Six years on she has become Jane Ripplemeyer, resident of Iowa, married to a middle-aged banker and adoptive mother of a Vietnamese refugee.

Jasmine's odyssey through America, rippling with energy and daring, reflects Mukherjee's preoccupation with the fractured lives of exiles and immigrants caught up in a painful yet exhilarating cross-cultural metamorphosis. In this uncompromising novel that draws on all the strengths of the award-winning The Middleman ... Read more and carries them to a new level of perception and intensity, Bharati Mukherjee has given us a heroine's 'greedy with wants and reckless with hope' - and leaves us breathless with surprise.

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Product Details

Publisher
Virago
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Series
VMC
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781853812781
SKU
V9781853812781
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50

About Bharati Mukherjee
Bharati Mukherjee has taught creative writing and current lectures at the University of California in Berkeley. She has written a series of critically acclaimed novels, including Darkness and the Middleman.

Reviews for Jasmine
An adept chronicler of the times and places where improbable worlds meet...She also captures the moments when lives change, by violence or passion...few could record them with Mukherjee's clarity, tenderness and humour - Evening Standard Tough and voluptuous...she has tapped a source which she converts to a light so bright it dazzles
Candida McWilliam

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