| Description |
224 pages ; 20 cm |
| Summary |
It tells the moving story of Uma, the plain older daughter of an Indian family, tied to the household of her childhood and tending to her parents' every extravagant demand, and of her younger brother, Arun, across the world in Massachusetts, bewildered by his new life in college and the suburbs, where he lives with the Patton family |
| Notes |
Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 1999 |
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Man Booker Prize, 1999, shortlist |
| Subject |
Families -- India -- Fiction.
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| SUBJECT |
India -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115432
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United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100003
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| Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction.
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Fiction.
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| ISBN |
0099289636 (paperback) |
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