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"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.
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Grave, earnest, contemporary and prestige.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Bharati Mukherjee
- First published
- 1989
- Pages
- 241
- Publisher
- Fawcett Crest, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, Viking
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780140104387
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