Bharati Mukherjee

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born

July 27, 1940 in Calcutta, West Bengal, India

gender

female

genre

Literature & Fiction

influences

Bernard Malamud, Henry Roth

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Bharati Mukherjee is an award-winning Indian born American writer. She is currently a professor in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Books by Bharati Mukherjee

Average rating: 3.28 · 3,484 ratings · 475 reviews · 27 distinct works

	Jasmine 3.31 avg rating — 1,209 ratings — published 1989 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Desirable Daughters: A Novel 3.19 avg rating — 555 ratings — 8 editions	My rating:
	Miss New India 2.94 avg rating — 500 ratings — published 2011 — 11 editions	My rating:
	The Middleman and Other Stories 3.63 avg rating — 241 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Holder of the World 3.56 avg rating — 214 ratings — published 1993 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Tree Bride 3.05 avg rating — 215 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Wife 3.38 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 1975 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Tiger's Daughter 3.13 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 1971 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Leave It to Me 2.69 avg rating — 100 ratings — 9 editions	My rating:
	Darkness 3.67 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1985 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Bharati Mukherjee

“Love on the decline is hard to tell from love on the rise.” [From 'The Lady from Lucknow']”
― Bharati Mukherjee, Darkness

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“It's making life important, making a single life important, rather than having a prescription for the global ills which afflict us.”
― Bharati Mukherjee

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“Humor's the hardest thing to translate.”
― Bharati Mukherjee

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