Difficult Daughters

Manju Kapur

Original title: Difficult daughters

first published 1998 Faber and Faber, 1998 262 pages

"Set around the time of Partition, Difficult Daughters is the story of a woman torn between family duty, the desire for education, and illicit love. Virmati, a young woman born in Amritsar into an austere and high-minded household, falls in love with a neighbour, the Professor - a man who is already married. That the Professor eventually marries Virmati, installs her in his home (along-side his furious first wife) an...

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Difficult Daughters edition · 2014 · Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. · 284 pages · 9781480484528
Difficult Daughters edition · 2014 · Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. · 9781480484511
Difficult Daughters edition · 2014 · Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. · 9781480484504
Difficult Daughters edition · 2010 · Faber & Faber, Limited · 272 pages · 9780571267798
Difficult daughters edition · 2010 · Faber and Faber · 282 pages · 9780571260645
Difficult daughters edition · 2002 · Faber · 262 pages
Difficult Daughters paperback · 1999 · Faber & Faber · 256 pages · 9780571196340
Difficult daughters edition · 1999 · Faber · 282 pages
Difficult daughters edition · 1998 · Penguin Books · 262 pages
Difficult daughters edition · 1998 · Faber and Faber · 262 pages

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