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 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 (alongside 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.
Published: January 1 2009 by Faber & Faber.
- שם: Difficult Daughters
- מחבר: Manju Kapur
- תחום: English
- מקט: ORB-954393
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