Bharti Kirchner

Darjeeling

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Produktbeschreibung

Novelist and award-winning cookbook author Bharti Kirchner has written a sweeping family saga, a first class fiction about forbidden love and family honor. Set in the mountainous tea plantations of Darjeeling, India and in New York City, Darjeeling is the story of two sisters - Aloka and Sujata - long separated by their love for Pranab, an idealistic young revolutionary. Pranab loves Sujata, the awkward, prickly, younger sister but, out of obligation, marries Aloka, the gracious, beautiful, older sister. When all of their secrets are revealed, the three are forced to leave Darjeeling. Aloka and Pranab flee to New York City and Sujata to Canada. The story opens ten years later, when their Grandmother summons everyone home to the family tea plantation to celebrate her birthday. Despite the fact that Aloka is still very much in love with Pranab, they are in the process of getting a divorce. Sujata, who is still single, runs a successful business importing tea, a business that doesn't fill her broken heart. This trip forces the sisters to wrestle with their bitterness and anger and to try to heal old wounds. What complicates matters is that Pranab, too, is going to India and is intent on rekindling his relationship with Sujata now that his marriage is over. Although filled with the rich foods, smells, and social confines of another culture, Darjeeling is really about the universally human emotions of jealousy, rivalry, love, and honor. It is a complex novel about family, exile, sisterly relations, and how one incident can haunt us for the rest of our lives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9780312316068
• ISBN-10: 0312316062
• Artikelnr.: 21885677

Autorenporträt

Bharti Kirchner is the 2020 winner of the prestigious SALA Award in creative writing. She's the author of seven previous acclaimed novels and four nonfiction works, most published by major U.S. or U.K houses. Goddess of Fire, a historical novel set in India, was shortlisted for the Nancy Pearl Award. Bharti has written for Food & Wine, Vegetarian Times, Writer's Digest, The Writer, San Francisco Chronicle, The Seattle Times, and eleven anthologies. Her many awards include a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship. She's a popular teacher at writer's conferences nationwide. She's been honored as a Living Pioneer Asian-American Author.