by Manju Kapur · Faber & Faber · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571196340
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«Difficult Daughters» is the novel by Manju Kapur, published by Faber & Faber in paperback (256 pages, in English).
Set in the Punjab at the time of the Partition of India, it follows Virmati, a young woman from a reformist family who is torn between family duty and her desire to study. Her love for a married professor sparks a scandal and confronts her with the cost of seeking her own independence in a world of social and political divisions.
Manju Kapur's debut novel, winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in South Asia and Europe (1999) and shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award in India.
For book clubs and readers of historical and literary fiction set in India, with an interest in female emancipation and identity.
Manju Kapur is an Indian novelist. Her first novel, Difficult Daughters, won the 1999 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, Europe and South Asia.
