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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 and Other Stories 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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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Jasmine
• Author: Bharati Mukherjee
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9781853812781
• ISBN: 1853812781
• ID: 04299023
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Weight: 178 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 128 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. May 1991

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