Difficult DaughtersSet 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. Virmati, a young woman born into a high-minded household, falls in love with a neighbour, the Professor - a man who is already married. That the Professor eventually marries Virmati, installs her in his home alongside his furious first wife and helps her with her studies, is small consolation to her scandalised family. Or even to Virmati, who finds that the battle for her own independence has created irrevocable lines of partition and pain around her. |
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User Review - Tess22 - LibraryThingDifficult Daughters tells the story of Virmati, a young woman who falls in love with a married professor just as her family is planning her own marriage. It vividly describes India around the time of ... Read full review
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It's a thrilling novel about self-identity.Virmati,faces all
hurdles specially for getting married by her mother Kasturi.
Still she manages to make her family ready for further study.Though,she gets trapped in illicit love affair with a already married professor which creates lots of problems to her,yet she bears .Her education led her to be independent.
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| Title | Difficult Daughters |
| Author | Manju Kapur |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Penguin Books India, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0571195695, 9780571195695 |
| Length | 282 pages |
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