The Tiger's Daughter

The Tiger's Daughter

Infobox Book
name = The Tiger's Daughter


author = Bharati Mukherjee
country = United States
language = English
genre = Novel
publisher = Houghton Mifflin
release_date = 1971
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 210 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-395-12715-7
preceded_by = N/A
followed_by = Wife (1975)

"The Tiger's Daughter" (1971) is the first novel by noted Indian-born 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.

Book information

"The Tiger's Daughter" by Bharati Mukherjee
* Hardcover – ISBN 0-395-12715-7, published in 1971 by Houghton Mifflin
* Paperback – ISBN 0-449-22100-8, published in 1992 by Fawcett Crest

External links

* [http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=17-0395127157-0 Powell's book review]


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