| Author: | Bharati Mukherjee | ISBN: | 9780802196354 |
| Publisher: | Grove/Atlantic, Inc. | Publication: | December 1, 2007 |
| Imprint: | Grove Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Bharati Mukherjee |
| ISBN: | 9780802196354 |
| Publisher: | Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
| Publication: | December 1, 2007 |
| Imprint: | Grove Press |
| Language: | English |
When Jasmine is suddenly widowed at seventeen, she seems fated to a life of quiet isolation in the small Indian village where she was born. But the force of Jasmine's desires propels her explosively into a larger, more dangerous, and ultimately more life-giving world. In just a few years, Jasmine becomes Jane Ripplemeyer, happily pregnant by a middle-aged Iowa banker and the adoptive mother of a Vietnamese refugee. Jasmine's metamorphosis, with its shocking upheavals and its slow evolutionary steps, illuminates the making of an American mind; but even more powerfully, her story depicts the shifting contours of an America being transformed by her and others like her -- our new neighbors, friends, and lovers. In Jasmine, Bharati Mukherjee has created a heroine as exotic and unexpected as the many worlds in which she lives. "RichÂ…one of the most suggestive novels we have about what it is to become an American." -- The New York Times Book Review
When Jasmine is suddenly widowed at seventeen, she seems fated to a life of quiet isolation in the small Indian village where she was born. But the force of Jasmine's desires propels her explosively into a larger, more dangerous, and ultimately more life-giving world. In just a few years, Jasmine becomes Jane Ripplemeyer, happily pregnant by a middle-aged Iowa banker and the adoptive mother of a Vietnamese refugee. Jasmine's metamorphosis, with its shocking upheavals and its slow evolutionary steps, illuminates the making of an American mind; but even more powerfully, her story depicts the shifting contours of an America being transformed by her and others like her -- our new neighbors, friends, and lovers. In Jasmine, Bharati Mukherjee has created a heroine as exotic and unexpected as the many worlds in which she lives. "RichÂ…one of the most suggestive novels we have about what it is to become an American." -- The New York Times Book Review
