Description
National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Bharati Mukherjee has long been known not only for her elegant, evocative prose but also for her characters--influenced by ancient customs and traditions but also very much rooted in modern times. In The Tree Bride, the narrator, Tara Chatterjee (whom readers will remember from Desirable Daughters), picks up the story of an East Bengali ancestor. According to legend, at the age of five Tara Lata married a tree and eventually emerged as a nationalist freedom fighter. In piecing together her ancestor's transformation from a docile Bengali Brahmin girl-child into an impassioned organizer of resistance against the British Raj, the contemporary narrator discovers and lays claim to unacknowledged elements in her 'American' identity. Although the story of the Tree Bride is central, the drama surrounding the narrator, a divorced woman trying to get back with her husband, moves the novel back and forth through time and across continents.
Author: Bharati Mukherjee
Publisher: Hyperion-Acquired Assets
Published: 08/01/2005
Pages: 302
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.88w x 0.71d
ISBN13: 9780786888665
ISBN10: 0786888660
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Cultural Heritage
- Fiction | Historical | General
About the Author
Bharati Mukherjee is the author of five novels, two non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories, including The Middleman and Other Stories, for which she won the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is a professor of English at the University of California Berkeley.