Jasmine
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 1989
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 242 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780802136305
- Publisher:
- Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
- Date of Addition:
- 08/19/09
- Copyrighted By:
- Bharati Mukherjee
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Daproim Africa
- Proofread By:
- Daproim Africa
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.