
Jasmine
30th Anniversary Edition
Bharati Mukherjee(Author)
GROVE ATLANTIC (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 5. April 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
978-0-8021-3630-5 (ISBN)
Description
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
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Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
265 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8021-3630-5 (9780802136305)
Schweitzer Classification
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