内容简介:Praise for Miss New India "Mukherjee’s pitch?perfect ear for character and mood and her storytelling gifts capture the exhilarating restlessness of a young Indian woman’s pursuit of happiness." — Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club Praise for Bharati Mukherjee "Bharati Mukherjee is writing achingly compassionate, ravishingly beautiful, absolutely essential books." — Robert Olen Butler "Funny, intelligent, versatile . . . profound." — Washington Post Book World "Stunning . . . Her characters stand on the shaky ground where East meets West and the sound of cultures clashing could shatter glass." — Los Angeles Times "Mukherjee has eloquently succeeded in creating a kind of impressionistic fable, a prose poem, about being an exile, a refugee, a spiritual vagabond in the world today." — New York Times "Engrossing . . . Mukherjee once again presents all the shock, pain and liberation of exile and transformation." — USA Today "Mukherjee has emerged as an exemplary author." — Washington Post
作者简介:Winner of a National Book Critic’s Circle Award, BHARATI MUKHERJEE is the author of eight novels, two story collections, and the coauthor of two books of nonfiction. She is a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.