{"product_id":"bharati-mukherjee-jasmine-1991-paperback","title":"Bharati Mukherjee: Jasmine [1991] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Jasmine Vijh is suddenly widowed at seventeen, she seems fated to a future of quiet isolation in a small Indian village. But, voracious for life, she flees to America. Six years on she has become Jane Ripplemeyer, resident of Iowa, married to a middle-aged banker and adoptive mother of a Vietnamese refugee.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Jasmine's odyssey through America, rippling with energy and daring, reflects Mukherjee's preoccupation with the fractured lives of exiles and immigrants caught up in a painful yet exhilarating cross-cultural metamorphosis. In this uncompromising novel that draws on all the strengths of the award-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Middleman and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e and carries them to a new level of perception and intensity, Bharati Mukherjee has given us a heroine's 'greedy with wants and reckless with hope' - and leaves us breathless with surprise.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mukherjee, Bharati","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":52916517077331,"sku":"9781853812781","price":15.7,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":52916517044563,"sku":"XG81853812781","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/mukherjee-bharati-bharati-mukherjee-jasmine-1991-paperback-1219372244.jpg?v=1770245499","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/bharati-mukherjee-jasmine-1991-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}