ISBN: 9788184000337    Publisher: Random House Year of publishing: 2010     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 338        Language: English

Banwari Lal, the patriach of a family-run cloth business in Karol Bagh is a believer inthe old ways. Men work out of the home, women within. Men carry forward the family line, womenenable their mission. But all is not as it seems. His two sons may unquestioningly follow their fatherin business and in life, but their wives will not. Neither will his granddaughter who is determined tostrike her own path. In the midst of these tensions, a secret emerges which threatens the old-fashionedfamily to its foundations.
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Manju Kapur is the bestselling author of four novels, Difficult Daughters (winner of the Commonwealth Prize, Eurasia), A Married Woman and Home (shortlisted for the Hutch Crossword Prize for fiction), and The Immigrant (shortlisted for the DSC Prize). She lives in New Delhi.
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