Daughters of the House (Record no. 223042)

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041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title English
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Edition number 23
Classification number 820.33
Item number AIKD
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Personal name Indrani Aikath Gyaltsen
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9 (RLIN) 38309
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Title Daughters of the House
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New Delhi
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1991
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 156 p.
Other physical details PB
Dimensions 19x12 cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Currency code ₹
Unit of pricing ₹65.00
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "In her knowing and beautifully written first novel, Indrani Aikath-Gyaltsen transports us to rural India, where four extraordinary women confront their fates, as a family and as individuals. Self-sufficient, suspicious of their neighbors in general, and men in particular, the Panditji women have always relied on their loyalty to one another - until one of them changes the rules. The tumult in their inner lives that follows is laid bare by Aikath-Gyaltsen's lushly descriptive prose and her keen insight into the human heart." "It should have been a day for celebrating: eighteen-year-old Chchanda, her younger sister Mala, and their old servant Parvati receive news that their beloved aunt, Madhulika, a not-quite-middle-aged woman of great beauty and charisma, is returning home from Ranchi, a nearby city, with a husband. The embroidery, sewing, and careful tending of fruit trees that have long been their meager way of eking out a living will come to an end. There will be a man in the house and he, a lawyer, is rich." "But instead of rejoicing, the daughters of the house are threatened. We first encounter the narrator, Chchanda, filled with loathing for Madhu's new husband; his arrival seems uncommonly disturbing and strange. Unlike Parvati and Mala, Chchanda sees this as a fight to the death: the intruder must be expelled, through subterfuge, subtle insult, disgusted glances, knowing manipulations. But when the course of her aunt's new marriage takes an unexpected turn, Chchanda is caught off guard. It slowly becomes apparent to the reader - if not to Chchanda - that her feelings are more complicated than she would have us believe." "In Aikath-Gyaltsen we encounter an enchanting new voice, deceptive in her ability to disarm as she parades for us the endless variety of human emotion and behavior: betrayal, compassion, and every shading in between. Filled with the sights, smells, sounds, and mores of rural India - glistening fish liberated from underwater traps, an.<br/>Old Jeep seat pressed into service as a parlor easy chair, stew burning over a coal fire as events careen out of control - Daughters of the House takes as its characters not only Chchanda and the others but their house, the world of nature, and the society that enmeshes them all. And borne along on Aikath-Gyaltsen's beguiling language, we come to know and experience their world, unlike any we have ever seen." --Book Jacket.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element fiction
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Personal name AIKATH GYALTSEN (Indrani)
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     English St Aloysius Library St Aloysius Library 03/23/2013   820.33 AIKD GF02357 05/20/2022 65.00 05/20/2022 George Fernandes Collections