Holder of the World
Autor Bharati Mukherjeeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 iul 1994
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 Hannah Easton, a unique woman born in the American colonies in 1670, "a person undreamed of in Puritan society." Inquisitive, vital and awake to her own possibilities, Hannah travels to Mughal, India, with her husband, and English trader. There, she sets her own course, "translating" herself into the Salem Bibi, the white lover of a Hindu raja.
It is also the story of Beigh Masters, born in New England in the mid-twentieth century, an "asset hunter" who stumbles on the scattered record of her distant relative's life while tracking a legendary diamond. As Beigh pieces together details of Hannah's journeys, she finds herself drawn into the most intimate and spellbinding fabric of that remote life, confirming her belief that with "sufficient passion and intelligence, we can decontrsuct the barriers of time and geography...."
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780449909669
ISBN-10: 0449909662
Pagini: 300
Dimensiuni: 140 x 208 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:Ballantine Book.
Editura: BALLANTINE BOOKS
ISBN-10: 0449909662
Pagini: 300
Dimensiuni: 140 x 208 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:Ballantine Book.
Editura: BALLANTINE BOOKS
Descriere
The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of The Middleman and Other Stories offers her most acclaimed and successful novel to date--now in paperback. A modern American woman finds herself "translated" into the soul of a woman living in India in 1670. "Extraordinary".--The New York Times Book Review
Notă biografică
Bharati Mukherjee was born in Calcutta. She attended the universities of Calcutta and Baroda, where she received a master’s degree in English and Ancient Indian Culture. She came to America in 1961 to attend the Writer’s Workshop and received a master of fine arts and Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. She became an American citizen in 1988. She is a professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley and is married to the writer Clark Blaise.
Mukherjee is the author of eight books of fiction—Desirable Daughters, The Tiger’s Daughter, Wife, Darkness, The Middleman and Other Stories (which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1989), Jasmine Leave It to Me, and The Holder of the World—and two books of nonfiction, written with her husband, Days and Nights in Calcutta and The Sorrow and Terror.
Mukherjee is the author of eight books of fiction—Desirable Daughters, The Tiger’s Daughter, Wife, Darkness, The Middleman and Other Stories (which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1989), Jasmine Leave It to Me, and The Holder of the World—and two books of nonfiction, written with her husband, Days and Nights in Calcutta and The Sorrow and Terror.