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"In Desirable Daughters, Mukherjee has written a novel that is both the portrait of a traditional Brahmin family on the brink of its dissolution, and a contemporary American story of a woman who has outwardly broken with tradition, but still remains tied to her native country.
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- Author
- Bharati Mukherjee
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 310
- Publisher
- Theia, HarperFlamingo Canada
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780786865987
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