A Married Woman - Softcover

Manju Kapur

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ISBN 10: 057121567X ISBN 13: 9780571215676

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2004

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Astha has everything an educated, middle-class Delhi woman could ask for - a loving husband and affluent surroundings - and yet is consumed with a sense of dissatisfaction. She begins an extra-marital affair with a younger woman, the widow of a political activist and jeopardizes everything.

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About the Author:

Manju Kapur is the author of four novels. Her first, Difficult Daughters, won the Commonwealth Prize for First Novels (Eurasia Section) and was a number one bestseller in India. Her second novel A Married Woman was called 'fluent and witty' in the Independent, while her third, Home, was described as 'glistening with detail and emotional acuity' in the Sunday Times. Her most recent novel, The Immigrant, has been longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. She lives in New Delhi.

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Astha has everything an educated middle-class Delhi woman could wish for yet she embarks on a powerful physical relationship with a much younger woman. Is she foolishly jeopardising everything - or simply throwing off the fear instilled in her by her parents, her husband, her social class?

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