TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kapur,Manju
TI  - Difficult daughters
SN  - 9780571260645
AV  - PR 9499.3 .K283 D54 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - London
PB  - Faber and Faber
KW  - Social role
KW  - India
KW  - Punjab
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Punjab (India)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Domestic fiction
N1  - Originally published: 1998
N2  - 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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