Tree Bride, The

Author: Bharati Mukherjee

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Price : $34.99 NZD
ISBN : 9780786888665
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Publication date : 01 September 2005
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Description

In piecing together her ancestor's transformation from a docile Bengali Brahmin girl-child into an impassioned organizer of resistance against the British Raj, the contemporary narrator discovers and lays claim to unacknowledged elements in her "American" identity.

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"Mukherjee is a master at creating magical, mysterious stories that resound with spiritual healing for both the dead and the living." - Chicago Sun-Times "Mukherjee is a virtuoso." - Booklist

Author description

Bharati Mukherjee is the author of seven novels, including The Tree Bride (also available from Turnaround). She won the National Book Critics Circle Award for a collection of short fiction, The Middleman and Other Stories.

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