Difficult Daughters by Manju Kapur
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
Manju Kapur lives in New Delhi, where she is a teacher of English literature at Miranda House College, Delhi University. Her first novel, Difficult Daughters, received tremendous international acclaim, won the Commonwealth Prize for First Novels (Eurasia Section), and was a number one bestseller in India.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571195695 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571195695 |
| Title | Difficult Daughters |
| Author | Manju Kapur |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 1999-06-07 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Prizes | Winner of The Commonwealth Writer's Prize Best First Book Eurasia 1999, Winner of The Commonwealth Writers Prize 1999 |
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