by Manju Kapur · Booket · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788467027587
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«Hijas difíciles» is the contemporary novel by Manju Kapur, published by Booket in paperback (368 pages, in Spanish).
At the time of the partition of India, Virmati, whose future is decided by her family, falls in love with a literature and philosophy professor from Oxford. That love leads her to rebel against traditions while the country moves towards independence, in a story about the bonds between the women of the family.
The work was originally published as «Difficult Daughters» in 1998 and won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for best first work in 1999.
It is aimed at readers of literary and historical fiction, with an interest in India, the condition of women and independence processes.
Manju Kapur is an Indian novelist. Her first novel, Difficult Daughters, won the 1999 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, Europe and South Asia.
