false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166720193m/16235.jpg 16235 11 Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni made an indelible impression on the literary world with her first novel, <I>The Mistress of Spices</I>, a magical tale of love and herbs. <I>Sister of My Heart</I> is less reliant on enchantment but no less enchanting as it tells the tale of two cousins born on the same day, their premature births brought on by a mysterious occurrence that claims the lives of both their fathers. Sudha is beautiful, Anju is not; yet the girls love each other as sisters, the bond between them so strong it seems nothing can break it. When both are pushed into arranged marriages, however, each discovers a devastating secret that changes their relationship forever. <I>Sister of My Heart</I> spans many years and zigzags between India and America as the cousins first grow apart and then eventually reunite. Divakaruni invests this domestic drama with poetry as she traces her heroines' lives from infancy to motherhood, but it is Sudha and Anju who give the story its backbone. Anju might speak for both when she says, "In spite of all my insecurities, in spite of the oceans that'll be between us soon and the men that are between us already, I can never stop loving Sudha. It's my habit, and it's my fate." Book lovers may well discover that reading Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is habit-forming as well. <I>--Margaret Prior</I> 2483404 1997 Sister of My Heart: A Novel total:2550|5:752|4:1144|3:511|2:120|1:23| 2550 10132 3417 390 5 4 false false Sat Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 15 09:53:18 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 11 07:53:56 -0700 2008
So, yes, I was frustrated reading this beautiful novel.

It is full of secrets, revealed one by one within the chapters. When the secret was ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Apr 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 16:36:57 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 15:59:18 -0700 2009
Tapi,..setelah baca sampai selesai ternyata ceritanya menarik juga. Jadi penasaran sama buku2nya Divakaruni.

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A lovely read, with two charming central characters and some well-defined secondary ones, Sister of My Heart is captivating, though a bit predictable.

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For the most part, I loved this book. I always couldn't wait to pick it up because the story felt so true and beautifully told. It touched on so many things close to my own heart -- between mother and infant, mother and daughter, husband and wife, families, sisters. The forma...more...]]> 4 0 false true Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 06 10:19:34 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 20 07:35:19 -0700 2008

The book tells the story of two cousi...

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So beautiful...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Oct 20 11:29:15 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 11:36:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Jul 25 11:05:51 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 11:05:51 -0700 2009 here to find it in the catalogue.more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 08 10:48:13 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 10:53:26 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 23 14:16:14 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 23 14:27:52 -0800 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=16235