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The Tiger's Daughter

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The Tiger's Daughter
First edition (US)
AuthorBharati Mukherjee
Cover artistFrank Bozzo
LanguageEnglish
PublisherHoughton Mifflin (US)
Chatto & Windus (UK)
Publication date
1971
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages210 pp
ISBN0-395-12715-7
OCLC217219
813/.5/4
LC ClassPZ4.M9555 Ti3 PR9499.3.M77
Preceded byN/A 
Followed byWife (1975) 

The Tiger's Daughter (1971) is the first novel by Indian American author Bharati Mukherjee.

Plot summary

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The story revolves around Tara who was raised in Calcutta, educated at Vassar College in New York and is married to an American man. The novel explores her sense of culture shock when she travels back to India intertwined with the political situation in Calcutta and West Bengal.

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