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Wife

by Bharati Mukherjee · 1975

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"Mukherjee writes with beautiful precision and just the right density of detail. There is an unlikely marriage of Jane Austen and Nathaniel West in her words."

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"Dimple Dasgupta had set her heart on marrying a neurosurgeon, but her father was looking for engineers in the matrimonial ads." So begins the wry story of an obedient daughter of middle-class Indian parents who is about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime. Driven first to shock and then to despair, Dimple lives in a waking dream. And when her fantasies take a violent turn, she wonders where wishes end and reality begins....

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literary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1970s1970sMore like thisLess of thisIndiaIndiaMore like thisLess of thisNorth AmericaNorth AmericaMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 213 pages

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