Difficult daughters
Manju Kapur · 1998
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About the book
"Set around the time of Partition, Difficult Daughters is the story of a woman torn between family duty, the desire for education, and illicit love. Virmati, a young woman born in Amritsar into an austere and high-minded household, falls in love with a neighbour, the Professor - a man who is already married. That the Professor eventually marries Virmati, installs her in his home (along-side his furious first wife) and helps her towards further studies in Lahore, is small consolation to her scandalised family. Or even to Virmati, who finds that the battle for her own independence has created irrevocable lines of partition and pain around her."--BOOK JACKET.
First sentence: The one thing I had wanted was not to be like my mother.
Book details
- Year
- 1998
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Editions
- 7
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN
- 9780571196340
Data source: Wikidata
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