After the assassination of her husband, seventeen-year-old Jasmine leaves India to live with a middle-aged banker in a small Iowa town, only to retain some of the traditions and memories of the past.

This "gorgeously written" National Book Award finalist is a dazzling, heart-rending story of an oil rig worker whose closest friend goes missing, plunging him into isolation and forcing him to confront his past (NPR, One of the Best Books ...

Hailed as Gloria Naylor’s “richest and most complex” novel, it is the kind of book that stays with you long after the final page (Providence Journal).

Once again, Bharati Mukherjee prove she is one of our foremost writers, with the literary muscles to weave both the future and the past into a tale that is singularly intelligent and provocative.”—Amy Tan This is the remarkable story of ...

... Bharati Ray and Aparna Basu ( New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1999 ) , 36 ; Sharit K. Bhowmik ... Mukherjee to Ghai , 22.7.83 , RL 33-3-100 , Jacket 1 . 132. Margaret Owens to Loutfi , 14 June 1984 , 302 Notes.

Now featuring a new preface in which Chakrabarty responds to his critics, this book globalizes European thought by exploring how it may be renewed both for and from the margins.

Sumptuous poems about South Asian women from the author of "Mistress of Spices" and "Sister of My Heart."

From the bestselling author of Sister of My Heart comes a spellbinding tale of mothers and daughters, love and cultural identity.

It sits somewhere in your subconscious mind, causing micro-level damage to your self-worth and belief. It is we who let these oppressive remarks suppress us. This book is about starting a revolution within ourselves.

This volume explores various new forms, objects and modes of circulation that sustain this renovated form of Orientalism in South Asian culture.