Book description
When their traditional business - selling saris - is increasingly
sidelined by the new fashion for jeans and stitched salwar kameez, the
Banwari Lal family must adapt. But instead of branching out, the sons
remain apprenticed to the struggling shop and the daughters are
confined to the family home. As envy and suspicion grip parents and
children alike, the need for escape - whether through illicit love or
in the making of pickles or the search for education - becomes ever
stronger. Very human and hugely engaging, Home is a masterful novel of
the acts of kindness, compromise and secrecy that lie at the heart of
every family.
Manju Kapur lives in New Delhi, where she is a teacher of
English literature at Miranda House College, Delhi University. Her
first novel, Difficult Daughters, received tremendous international
acclaim. Her second novel A Married Woman was called "fluent and
witty" in the Independent, while her third, Home, was described
as "engaging, glistening with detail and emotional acuity"
in the Sunday Times.
