Jasmin

by Bharati Mukherjee | Children's Books |
ISBN: 0802136303 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Flowerdk4 on 7/30/2005
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Journal Entry 1 by Flowerdk4 on Saturday, July 30, 2005
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This novel relates both the odyssey and the metamorphosis of a young immigrant from rural India. Her story is often shocking: the violence of the rape that greets her on her first night in America is certainly no greater than that of the crazed Sikh extremists who made her a widow at age 17 in India. Yet neither the character nor her story is held back by this violence. Along the way Jaze acquires three children, including Du, a Vietnamese boy who like herself is an immigrant. Finally, still only in her early twenties, Jaze takes off to pursue her own version of the American dream. The novel has a delicious humor and sexiness that make it a treat to read. The author is this year's winner of the National Book Critics Circle fiction award for The Middleman and Other Stories

(This book is written in Danish + the cover shown is the from the english version of the book)

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