Book description
Set around the time of Partition and written with absorbing
intelligence and sympathy, Difficult Daughters is the story of a young
woman torn between the desire for education and the lure of illicit
love. 'Difficult Daughters is intensely imagined, fluidly written,
moving. Through our struggles with our parents, it flings us into
their own momentous times, their youthful yearnings for love and
independence and life. And so it becomes an urgent and important story
about family and partitions and love.' Vikram Chandra
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.
