The Tiger's Daughter

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Title The Tiger's Daughter
Author Bharati Mukherjee
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Houghton Mifflin
Released 1971
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 210 pp
ISBN ISBN 0-395-12715-7
Preceded by N/A
Followed by Wife (1975)

The Tiger's Daughter (1971) is the first novel by noted Indian-born American author Bharati Mukherjee.

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The story revolves around Tara who was raised in Calcutta, educated at Vassar College in New York and is married to an American man. The novel explores her sense of culture shock when she travels back to India intertwined with the political situation in Calcutta and West Bengal.

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The Tiger's Daughter by Bharati Mukherjee


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