The Tiger’s Daughter

novel by Mukherjee

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  • Bharati Mukherjee
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    Her first novel, The Tiger’s Daughter (1972), tells of a sheltered Indian woman shocked by her immersion in American culture and, on her return to India, by a changed Calcutta. Wife (1975) details an Indian woman’s descent into madness as she is pulled apart by the demands of…

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