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The Tree Bride [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]

The Tree Bride [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]

The Tree Bride [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
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The Tree Bride [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING] Hardback - 2004

by Mukherjee, Bharati

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In piecing together her ancestor's transformation from a docile Bengali Brahmin girl-child into an impassioned organizer of resistance against the British Raj, the contemporary narrator discovers and lays claim to unacknowledged elements in her "American" identity.

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New York, NY: Hachette Books, 2004. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good in very good dust jacket. SIGNED by author on title page (signature only). 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Slight edgewear, a tiny closed tear, and a crease to the dust jacket. Book boards have some shelfwear. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Audience: General/trade. By the late Guggenheim Fellowship-, Pushcart Prize-, and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of 'Miss New India' and 'Desirable Daughters'. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.

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  • Title The Tree Bride [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
  • Author Mukherjee, Bharati
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st Edition 1st Printing
  • Condition Used - Very good
  • Pages 402
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Hachette Books, New York, NY
  • Publication date 2004
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 3053
  • ISBN 9781401300586 / 1401300588
  • Weight 1.23 lbs (0.56 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.77 x 6.2 x 0.9 in (24.82 x 15.75 x 2.29 cm)
  • Age range 18 to 17 years
  • Grade levels 13 - 12
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Indian
    • Topical: Divorce
    • Topical: Family
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Sisters
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2004042507
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Bharati Mukherjee has long been known not only for her elegant, evocative prose but also for her characters--influenced by ancient customs and traditions but also very much rooted in modern times. In The Tree Bride, the narrator, Tara Chatterjee (whom readers will remember from Desirable Daughters), picks up the story of an East Bengali ancestor. According to legend, at the age of five Tara Lata married a tree and eventually emerged as a nationalist freedom fighter. In piecing together her ancestor's transformation from a docile Bengali Brahmin girl-child into an impassioned organizer of resistance against the British Raj, the contemporary narrator discovers and lays claim to unacknowledged elements in her 'American' identity. Although the story of the Tree Bride is central, the drama surrounding the narrator, a divorced woman trying to get back with her husband, moves the novel back and forth through time and across continents.

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Citations

  • Booklist, 06/01/2004, Page 1671
  • Kirkus Reviews, 06/15/2004, Page 554
  • Library Journal, 08/01/2004, Page 69
  • New York Times, 09/26/2004, Page 24
  • Publishers Weekly, 08/16/2004, Page 41

About the author

Bharati Mukherjee is the author of five novels, two non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories, including The Middleman and Other Stories, for which she won the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is a professor of English at the University of California Berkeley.

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