Difficult Daughters
- ISBN-10
- 0571195695
- ISBN-13
- 9780571195695
- Category
- Daughters
- Pages
- 292
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Penguin Books India
- Author
- Manju Kapur
Description
Spanning three generations, this story centres around a woman born at the turn of the 20th century into an austere Punjabi family. It tells of an illicit affair and its wider political and social implications - not least the vexed issue, for Indian women, of marriage versus education.
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