Jasmine

Name: Jasmine
Brand: Grove Atlantic
SKU: 9780802136305-V
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By Bharati Mukherjee

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When Jasmine is suddenly widowed at seventeen, she seems fated to a life of quiet isolation in the small Indian village where she was born. But the force of Jasmine's desires propels her explosively into a larger, more dangerous, and ultimately more life-giving world. In just a few years, Jasmine becomes Jane Ripplemeyer, happily pregnant by a middle-aged Iowa banker and the adoptive mother of a Vietnamese refugee. Jasmine's metamorphosis, with its shocking upheavals and its slow evolutionary steps, illuminates the making of an American mind; but even more powerfully, her story depicts the shifting contours of an America being transformed by her and others like her -- our new neighbors, friends, and lovers. In Jasmine, Bharati Mukherjee has created a heroine as exotic and unexpected as the many worlds in which she lives. "Rich...one of the most suggestive novels we have about what it is to become an American." -- The New York Times Book Review

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 2
Languages:: Original: English
Number of Pages:: 256
Publisher:: Grove Atlantic
Publication Date:: 1999-04-05
ISBN / EAN:: 9780802136305
Weight:: 265 g
Dimensions:: 14/21/2 cm

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