'A skilful, enticing first novel. Manju Kapur's sensous pages re-create an intimate world.' Sunday Times

Set around the time of Partition and written with absorbing intelligence and sympathy, Difficult Daughters is the story of a young woman torn between the desire for education and the lure of illicit love.

Virmati, a young woman born in Amritsar into an austere and high-minded household, falls in love with a neighbour, the Prefessor – a man who is already married. That the Professor eventually marries Virmati, installs her in his home (alongside his furious first wife) and helps her towards further studies in Lahoure, is small consolation to her scandalised family. Or even to Virmati, who finds that the battle for her own independence has created irrevocable lines of partition and pain around her.

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Title: Difficult Daughters

Author: Manju Kapur

Condition: Used and read only once

ISBN: 0571195695

Publisher: faber and faber

Year of publication: 1998

Binding: Soft cover

Comments: This book has only been read once. It is in excellent condition.

Price: $5.95 + Postage & Handling

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