The Tiger's Daughter | |
Cover Artist: | Frank Bozzo |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Publisher: | Houghton Mifflin (US) Chatto & Windus (UK) |
Release Date: | 1971 |
Media Type: | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Pages: | 210 pp |
Isbn: | 0-395-12715-7 |
Dewey: | 813/.5/4 |
Congress: | PZ4.M9555 Ti3 PR9499.3.M77 |
Oclc: | 217219 |
Preceded By: | N/A |
Followed By: | Wife (1975) |
The Tiger's Daughter (1971) is the first novel by Indian American author Bharati Mukherjee.
The story revolves around Tara who was raised in Calcutta, educated at Vassar College in New York and is married to an American man. The novel explores her sense of culture shock when she travels back to India intertwined with the political situation in Calcutta and West Bengal.