Difficult Daughters by Manju Kapur

Set around the time of Partition and written with absorbing intelligence and sympathy, "Difficult Daughters" is the story of a woman torn between family duty, the desire for education, and illicit love. Virmati, a young woman born in Amritsar into an austere and high-minded household, falls in love with a neighbour, the Professor--a man who is already married. That the Professor eventually marries Virmati, installs her in his home (alongside his furious first wife) and helps her towards further studies in Lahore, is small consolation to her scandalised family. Or even to Virmati, who finds that the battle for her own independence has created irrevocable lines of partition and pain around her. "Difficult Daughters" was short-listed for the Crossword Book Award in India.

Publisher:	Faber
Year:	1998
Binding:	Paperback
ISBN:	9780571196340
Condition:	Good
Description:	Some taning.

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SKU: 1583959
Location: Fiction