Difficult Daughters

Set around the time of Partition and written with absorbing intelligence and sympathy, Difficult Daughters is the story of a young woman torn between the desire for education and the lure of illicit love. Virmati, a young woman born into a high-minded household, falls in love with a neighbour, the Professor - a man who is already married. "Set around the time of Partition, Difficult Daughters is the story of a woman torn between family duty, the desire for education, and illicit love. Virmati, a young woman born in Amritsar into an austere and high-minded household, falls in love with a neighbour, the Professor - a man who is already married. That the Professor eventually marries Virmati, installs her in his home (along-side his furious first wife) and helps her towards further studies in Lahore, is small consolation to her scandalised family. Or even to Virmati, who finds that the battle for her own independence has created irrevocable lines of partition and pain around her."--Jacket Set Around The Time Of Partition And Written With Absorbing Intelligence And Sympathy, Difficult Daughters Is The Story Of A Young Woman Torn Between The Desire For Education And The Lure Of Illicit Love. 'difficult Daughters Is Intensely Imagined, Fluidly Written, Moving. Through Our Struggles With Our Parents, It Flings Us Into Their Own Momentous Times, Their Youthful Yearnings For Love And Independence And Life. And So It Becomes An Urgent And Important Story About Family And Partitions And Love.' Vikram Chandra Set around the time of Partition and written with absorbing intelligence and sympathy, this title is the story of a young woman torn between the desire for education and the lure of illicit love. The one thing I had wanted was not to be like my mother.