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 Home - Manju Kapur
Description: ISBN 0571228410 / Author: Manju Kapur / Genre: Fiction / Publisher: Faber and Faber Newest Review: ... He and his wife have three children - two sons who work in the business and a daughter whom he effectively 'sold off' in a ... more  ... bad marriage to a violent man in order to get money for his business. The sons got a better run of things - Yashpal, the eldest married a pretty girl, Sona, after seeing her with her mother visiting the shop. The younger, Pyare Lal, made a good marriage to the daughter of another wealthy shop keeper.
Sona has a sister, Rupa, who made a happy but less wealthy marriage to a minor civil servant and lives very much in the shadow of her prettier sister. There's a clear message of 'big family = happy; husband and wife alo...more |
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Format: Paperback, ISBN: 9781934413319
Pages: 144, Paperback, Virgin Comics - Books/Subjects/Comics & Gr ... |
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Home - Manju Kapur: You don't marry a man, you marry his entire extended family ... (1422 words)
by koshkha - written on 11/03/08 (Very useful, 201 readings)
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In a past job I used to visit India several times a year for work and I got to know some of my local colleagues quite well. We understood each other on most things but there was always a colossal culture gap in one area of our lives - our views and experience of marriage and family were totally alien to each other. We could talk for days but for me to get my head around the idea of arranged marriage and living in an extended family was every bit as difficult as them trying to understand how I could have married someone my parents didn't know or approve of and then live a life pretty much separated from both our families. And as for my husband and me not wanting children, ...
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