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From acclaimed and beloved author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni comes a new collection of moving stories about family, culture, and the seduction of memory. With the rich prose and keen insight that made Mistress of Spices and Sister of My Heart national bestsellers, these tales of journeys and returns, of error, of loss and recovery, all resound with her unique understanding of the human spirit. Don't we all have to pay, no matter what we choose? a young woman asks in The Love of a Good Man, one of the unforgettable stories in Chitra Divakaruni's beautifully crafted exploration of the tensions between new lives and old. In tales set in India and the United States, she illuminates the transformations of personal landscapes, real and imagined, brought about by the choices men and women make at every stage of their lives. The Love of a Good Man tells of an Indian woman happily settled in the United States who must confront the past when her long-estranged father begs to meet his only grandson. In the acclaimed Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter, a widow, inadvertently eavesdropping, discovers that her cherished, old-fashioned ways are an embarrassment to her daughter-in-law. A young American woman joins a pilgrimage of women in Kashmir and, in the land of her ancestors, comes to view herself and her family in a new light in The Lives of Strangers. Two women, uprooted from their native land by violence and deception, find unexpected comfort and hope in each other in The Blooming Season for Cacti. And in the title story, a young woman turns to her painting and the wisdom of her grandmother for the strength to accept her fiance's past when it arrives on her doorstep. Whether writing about the adjustments of immigrants to a foreign land or the accommodations families make to the disruptive differences between generations, Divakaruni poignantly portrays the eternal struggle to find a balance between the pull of home and the allure of change. From the Hardcover edition.

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"Powerful.... Beautifully observed.... She arranges bouquets of sensual detail and crisply etches unspoken passions."-"Los Angeles Times Book Review ""Authentic and complex.... Sophisticated and compassionate.... Moving.... [It is] a vision of what it means to be human, and in that resonance lies this collection's triumph."-"The Washington Post" "Masterful.... Sophisticated.... Beautiful prose.... Divakaruni delivers poetic renderings of her characters' thoughts and sensations as they think and feel their way around cultural obstacles and emotional snags."-"Chicago Tribune " "Divakaruni's stories will touch everyone who reads them.... It is her gift for language and her ability to cast sentences of exquisite beauty that make her such a high-performance writer."-"USA Today " "Magical.... Each [story] is a clear, compressed gem of intelligence and insight.... Entertaining...beguiling...lyrical...poignant.... Divakaruni is one of our finest chroniclers of the trials of life among first-generation Americans.... Her prose style is elegantly and gracefully formed, intermingled with aphorisms, dreams, letters and moments of perfect imagery and metaphor.... Irresistible and seductive, "The Unknown Errors of Our Lives" is shaped by the voice of a true storyteller, each piece filled with private charm and wise empathy."-"The Oregonian" "From the Trade Paperback edition."


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  • ISBN-13: 9781400032792
  • Publisher: Knopf Group E-Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Knopf Group E-Books
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1400032792
  • Publisher Date: 13 Aug 2002
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 121


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