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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Tender and compelling, THE IMMIGRANT is an honest exploration of a marriage, what it costs to start again - and what can never be left behind. When Nina, a thirty-year-old lecturer in New Delhi, agrees to an arranged marriage to Ananda, a recent émigré to Halifax, Canada, she is uncertain: can she give up her home and her country to build a new life with a husband she barely knows? As the two of them adapt to married life, Nina discovers truths about her husband - both sexual and emotional - and her fragile new life in Canada begins to unravel. The Immigrant by Manju Kapur is a poignant, intimate and compelling new novel about starting anew and leaving the familiar behind, from the author of Home , A Married Woman and Difficult Daughters . Zusammenfassung And as she discovers truths about her husband - both sexual and emotional - her fragile new life in Canada begins to unravel. Tender and compelling, The Immigrant is an honest exploration of a marriage, what it costs to start again - and what we can never leave behind.
