Set against the tumult of the 1947 Partition, Manju Kapur&’s acclaimed first novel captures a life torn between family, desire, and loveThe one thing I had wanted was not to be like my mother.Virmati is the eldest of eleven children, born to a respectable family in Amritsar. Her world is shaken when she falls in love with a married man. Charismatic Harish is a respected professor and her family&’s tenant. Virmati takes up with Harish and finds herself living alongside his first wife.Set in Amritsar and Lahore and narrated by Virmati and her daughter, Ida, a divorcée on a quest to understand and connect with her departed mother, Difficult Daughters is a stunning tale of motherhood, love, and finding one&’s identity in a nation struggling to discover its own.Winner of the 1999 Commonwealth Writers&’ Prize for best first book (Eurasia Region) and shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award in India.
