Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Author
Series
Anju and Sudha novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A novel on sisterhood featuring two cousins from India, both forced into arranged marriages. It chronicles the way they help each other overcome family dramas in India and the U.S.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An acclaimed novel by the author of The Mistress of Spices, and Before We Visit the Goddess. Jhumpa Lahiri praises: "One Amazing Thing collapses the walls dividing characters and cultures; what endures is a chorus of voices in one single room."
Late afternoon sun sneaks through the windows of a passport and visa office in an unnamed American city. Most customers and even most office workers have come and gone, but nine...
Late afternoon sun sneaks through the windows of a passport and visa office in an unnamed American city. Most customers and even most office workers have come and gone, but nine...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Orphaned at birth, the wild and headstrong Korobi Roy enjoyed a privileged childhood with her adoring grandparents. Still, she is troubled by the silence that surrounds her parents' deaths and clings fiercely to her only inheritance from them: a love note found hidden in her mother's book of poetry. Korobi's dreams come true when she finds just such a powerful love with the charming Rajat. Then her grandfather's sudden death reveals a devastating...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
On her way to visit her daughter on the other side of the jungle, Grandma encounters a hungry fox, bear, and tiger, and although she convinces them to wait for her return trip, she still must find a way to outwit them all.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
196 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1939, twelve-year-old Neela meets a young freedom fighter at her sister's wedding and soon after must rely on his help when her father fails to return home from a march in Calcutta against British occupation.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
210 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A beautiful, powerful new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of Sister of My Heart and The Mistress of Spies about three generations of mothers and daughters who must discover their greatest source of strength in one another--a masterful, brilliant tale of a family both united and torn apart by ambition and love. The daughter of a poor baker in rural Bengal, India, Sabitri yearns to get an education, but her family's situation means...
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Rakhi, a young artist living in Berkeley, California, finds herself caught between the turmoil of life in America in the wake of September 11th and the India of her mother, a woman with the ability to share and interpret the dreams of others.
