The Tiger's Daughter Explained

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.

Plot summary

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.

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