Overview:
From the award-winning author of Mistress of Spices, the bestselling novel about the extraordinary bond between two women, and the family secrets and romantic jealousies that threaten to tear them apart.
Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family of distinction. Her cousin Sudha is the daughter of the black sheep of that same family. Sudha is startlingly beautiful; Anju is not. Despite those differences, since the day on which the two girls were born, the same day their fathers died--mysteriously and violently--Sudha and Anju have been sisters of the heart. Bonded in ways even their mothers cannot comprehend, the two girls grow into womanhood as if their fates as well as their hearts were merged.
But, when Sudha learns a dark family secret, that connection is shattered. For the first time in their lives, the girls know what it is to feel suspicion and distrust. Urged into arranged marriages, Sudha and Anju's lives take opposite turns. Sudha becomes the dutiful daughter-in-law of a rigid small-town household. Anju goes to America with her new husband and learns to live her own life of secrets. When tragedy strikes each of them, however, they discover that despite distance and marriage, they have only each other to turn to.
Set in the two worlds of San Francisco and India, this exceptionally moving novel tells a story at once familiar and exotic, seducing readers from the first page with the lush prose we have come to expect from Divakaruni. Sister of My Heart is a novel destined to become as widely beloved as it is acclaimed.
“Divakaruni’s talent and originality lie in her ability to discern [the] basic emotional motifs beneath the flashy ‘exotica’ of Indian, and American, lifestyles. She finds the real points of departure between the two cultures and, in putting her finger exactly there, activates the universal.”
—LA Weekly
“An extraordinary tale… A serious tragedy in which the protagonists’ requisite fatal flaw lies in thinking that one can know what is in another’s heart.”
—San Jose Mercury News
“Beguiling and cleverly plotted.”
—Los Angeles Times Book Review
“A magical mix of art and feminism.”
—Houston Chronicle
“Divakaruni’s gift asserts itself in her moving portraits of Gouri, Nalini, and Pishi, the three acrimonious women—sharp-tongued one minute, compassionate the next—who bring the girls up.”
—The New Yorker
“Wonderfully unpredictable… One of the book’s many pleasures is anticipating where the two women will end up.”
—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“Hard to put down.”
—Detroit Free Press
“A wonderfully satisfying novel, full of surprises and emotional truths.”
—Hartford Courant
“What an irresistibly absorbing immersion in the pleasure and anguish of growing up passionate in a world of duty, where each comfort is hedged with a constraint and love unsettles every plan. Sister of My Heart may be alive with exotic detail but its emotions are very recognizable.”
—Rosellen Brown, author of Before and After and Tender Mercies
“Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s account of family life in Bengal is warm and richly detailed. Hers is one of the most strikingly lyrical voices writing about the lives of Indian women today.”
—Amitav Ghosh, author of In an Antique Land and The Calcutta Chromosome
“Shimmers with radiant energy. … Unfolds with hypnotic rhythm. A book sparkling with invention, a complex tapestry of worlds ancient and new.”
—Toronto Star
“Thoroughly engages the reader. A unique and instructive mix of unflinching social criticism and old-fashioned romance.”
—National Post (Toronto)
“An absorbing tale, underlined by Indian myth and fable. … A lush display of the Indian romantic imagination, in which the twin narratives encompass both fantasy and fatalism.”
—Toronto Globe and Mail
“Strikes a delicate balance between realism and fantasy. … A touching celebration of enduring love between two women.”
—Sunday Times (London)
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And Blessed Are The Ones Who Care For Their Fellow Men!
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