The Tiger's Daughter
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Author | Bharati Mukherjee |
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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.
[edit] Plot Summary
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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.
Spoilers end here.
[edit] Book information
The Tiger's Daughter by Bharati Mukherjee
- Hardcover – ISBN 0-395-12715-7, published in 1971 by Houghton Mifflin
- Paperback – ISBN 0-449-22100-8, published in 1992 by Fawcett Crest