by Manju Kapur · Faber & Faber · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571244072
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«The Immigrant» is a contemporary fiction novel by Manju Kapur, published by Faber & Faber in paperback (352 pages, in English).
Nina, an English teacher in New Delhi, struggles to get by with her widowed mother. Ananda is an Indian emigrant settled in Halifax; when his sister proposes an arranged marriage between them, Nina hesitates to leave her country. Revelations about her husband shake her new life.
Main edition, published on 3 December 2009. The novel was shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in stories of immigration, identity and cultural clashes.
Manju Kapur is an Indian novelist. Her first novel, Difficult Daughters, won the 1999 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, Europe and South Asia.
