- Fiction, Women, Conduct of life, Teenage girls
From the award-winning author of Mistress of Spices, the bestselling novel about the extraordinary bond between two women, and the family secrets and romantic jealousies that threaten to tear them apart.Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family of distinction.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and contemporary.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 322
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Anchor Books, Doubleday
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780385409230
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