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Spanning three generations, this story centres around a woman born at the turn of the 20th century into an austere Punjabi family. It tells of an illicit affair and its wider political and social implications - not least the vexed issue, for Indian women, of marriage versus education.
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- Title
- Difficult Daughters
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Manju Kapur
- Publisher
- Penguin Books India
- Publisher
- 1999
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0571195695
- ISBN13
- 9780571195695
- Category
- World prose
- Description
- Spanning three generations, this story centres around a woman born at the turn of the 20th century into an austere Punjabi family. It tells of an illicit affair and its wider political and social implications - not least the vexed issue, for Indian women, of marriage versus education.