![]() ![]() Her new home, a call-center metropolis, sports a breed of men and women who are her contemporaries, yet whose English she can scarcely understand. In this case, the village girl is Anjali Bose, a Bengali girl from a less-than-thriving town in central India who rejects her family's plan for an arranged marriage after suffering rape and humiliation by a suitor.Īnjali feels as though she is "part of the bold new India, an equal to anywhere, a land poised for takeoff," and the metaphor seems apt with the help of an expatriate teacher, she leaves home and heads to Hindi-speaking Bangalore. Mukherjee employs a classic plot: A village girl goes to the big city, where she throws off most of the old ways and discovers her new identity. Miss New India, Bharati Mukherjee's latest novel, gives us a picture of India as we've never truly seen it before, as a country as up-to-date - and as traditional - as any place in the world. Miss New India By Bharati Mukherjee hardcover, 336 pages Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, list price $25 ![]()
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