Sister of My Heart - Rilegato

Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee

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ISBN 10: 0385489501 ISBN 13: 9780385489508

Casa editrice: Doubleday, 1999

Riassunto

Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family of distinction. Sudha is the daughter of the black sheep of that same family. Sudha is startlingly beautiful; Anju is not. Despite these differences, since the day the two girls were born - the same day their fathers died, mysteriously and violentlySudha and Anju have been sisters of the heart.
When Sudha learns a dark family secret, that connection is threatened. For the first time in their lives, the girls know what it is to feel suspicion and distrust - Sudha, because she feels a new shame that she cannot share with Anju; and Anju, because she discovers the seductive power of her sister's beauty, a power Sudha herself is incapable of controlling. When, due to a change in family fortune, the girls are urged into arranged marriages, their lives take opposite turns. One travels to America, and one remains in India; both have lives of secrets. When tragedy strikes both of them, however, they discover that, despite distance and marriage, they must turn to each other once again.

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"What an irresistibly absorbing immersion in the pleasure and anguish of growing up passionate in a world of duty, where each comfort is hedged with a constraint and love unsettles every plan.  Sister of My Heart may be alive with exotic detail but its emotions are very recognizable."
--Rosellen Brown

"Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's account of family life in Bengal is warm and richly detailed.  Hers is one of the most strikingly lyrical voices writing about the lives of Indian women today."
--Amitav Ghosh

L'autore:

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, born in India, is an award-winning poet.  In 1995 her short story collection, Arranged Marriage, was awarded the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Prize for Fiction, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award for Fiction, and an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.  She is also the author of the bestselling novel The Mistress of Spices, and four poetry collections, including Leaving Yuba City.

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• Editore: Doubleday
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0385489501
• ISBN 13: 9780385489508
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 322