false <![CDATA[Difficult Daughters]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174024475m/354501.jpg 354501 6 <div>Set around the time of Partition and written with absorbing intelligence and sympathy, <i>Difficult Daughters</i> is the story of a woman torn between family duty, the desire for education, and illicit love. Virmati, a young woman born in Amritsar into an austere and high-minded household, falls in love with a neighbour, the Professor--a man who is already married. That the Professor eventually marries Virmati, installs her in his home (alongside his furious first wife) and helps her towards further studies in Lahore, is small consolation to her scandalised family. Or even to Virmati, who finds that the battle for her own independence has created irrevocable lines of partition and pain around her.<br><br><i>Difficult Daughters</i> was short-listed for the Crossword Book Award in India.<br></div> 344693 1998 Difficult Daughters total:115|5:11|4:38|3:46|2:16|1:4| 115 381 185 11 4 0 false false Mon Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 20 17:45:45 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 20 17:54:58 -0700 2008
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