Jasmine: 30th Anniversary Edition

Jasmine: 30th Anniversary EditionWhen Jasmine is suddenly widowed at seventeen, she seems fated to a life of quiet isolation in the small Indian village where she was born. But the force of Jasmine's desires propels her explosively into a larger, more dangerous, and ultimately more life giving world. In just a few years, Jasmine becomes Jane Ripplemeyer, happily pregnant by a middle aged Iowa banker and the adoptive mother of a Vietnamese refugee. Jasmine's metamorphosis, with its

When Jasmine is suddenly widowed at seventeen, she seems fated to a life of quiet isolation in the small Indian village where she was born. But the force of Jasmine's desires propels her explosively into a larger, more dangerous, and ultimately more life-giving world. In just a few years, Jasmine becomes Jane Ripplemeyer, happily pregnant by a middle-aged Iowa banker and the adoptive mother of a Vietnamese refugee. Jasmine's metamorphosis, with its shocking upheavals and its slow evolutionary steps, illuminates the making of an American mind; but even more powerfully, her story depicts the shifting contours of an America being transformed by her and others like her -- our new neighbors, friends, and lovers. In Jasmine, Bharati Mukherjee has created a heroine as exotic and unexpected as the many worlds in which she lives. -Rich...one of the most suggestive novels we have about what it is to become an American.- -- The New York Times Book Review

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 04/05/1999
ISBN: 9780802136305
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.23h x 5.56w x 0.69d

Review Citations: Booklist 11/15/2003 pg. 574