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Oleander Girl

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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Completed on 26 May 2022
ISBN : 9780143422495

In American Book Award winner Chitra Divakaruni’s new novel, Oleander Girl (Simon and Schuster), a young woman from a distinguished and orthodox Bengali heritage falls in love with a man from a nouveau-riche business family in Kolkata, a city buffeted by the clash between the old and new ways of life. On the brink of marriage, she will discover a family secret which will shake up her sense of self, cause her to put off her wedding, and impel her on a journey to America that will ultimately transform her in ways she cannot imagine. Set in 2002, in the fraught world of post 9/11 America and in an India torn apart by the Godhra Riots, Oleander Girl is an examination of the consequences of intolerance and the cost of desire. 

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Awesome book and highly recommended. In Chitra Divakaruni's most recent book, Oleander Girl (Simon and Schuster), winner of the American Book Award, a young Bengali woman from a prestigious and traditional family falls in love with a man from a nouveau-riche business family in Kolkata, a city shaken by the conflict between the old and new ways of life. On the verge of marriage, she will learn a family secret that will upend her sense of self, force her to postpone her nuptials, and force her to travel to America, where she will ultimately undergo a transformation she cannot have foreseen. Oleander Girl is a study of the effects of racism that is set in the turbulent world of post-September 11th America and a divided India in 2002.

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