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- Publisher: Ballantine Books
- ISBN: 0449003965
- WAPI (Tower ID): 100308554
- Release Date: November 1, 1998
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #745796 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
- #76332 in Fiction & Literature (See Top 100 Fiction & Literature Bestsellers)
- #4223 in Literary (See Top 100 Literary Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionMore Books by Bharati Mukherjee (Author)Run a Quick Search on "Leave It to Me" by Bharati Mukherjee to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "Leave It to Me"Browse more products related to "Bharati Mukherjee"Review"As long as Mukherjee lingers on the paradox of Devi's identity--the fact that she can transcend her humdrum past only by growing into a legacy of horror--the novel is mesmerizing and persuasive. As Devi comes to understand her existence as the offspring of a serial killer and his betrayer, Mukherjee provocatively suggests that the wrenching process of attaining adult self-knowledge can induce genuine pathology." "Devi Dee, like many of Mukherjee's heroines, is a postcolonial poster child with an identity crisis....[T]his kaleidoscopic coming-of-age story is governed not by growing self-awareness but by destiny and karma." "Despite promising beginnings, this is myth without resonance..." "Mukherjee's style, in her eighth novel, shows its own signs of decadence. This may be intentional....Mukherjee gave herself a fine chance to study the mixed results of the '60s...and then failed to take it, leaning instead on modern and ancient myths to steer her characters' stories." "[A] powerfully written novel that shows Mukherjee at the peak of her craft....Mukherjee writes with power, letting her sentences roll out like wild streamers in a high wind....[Mukherjee] takes some risks in this novel, but in the end she delivers." First lineIn Devigaon, a village a full day's bus ride into desert country west of Delhi, old Hari tells of times before the "long ago" of fairy tale, when celestials battled demons and the Cosmic Spirit revealed itself in surprising forms to devotees. Publisher's noteIn her first novel since "The Holder of the World", which Amy Tan called "an amazing literary feat and a masterpiece of storytelling", Bharati Mukherjee presents a stunningly reimagined version of the Electra story. AnnotationThe daughter of a flower child and a murderer, adopted as a toddler, sets off on a quest to find her real mother. If You Enjoy "Leave It to Me (Paperback)", May We Also Recommend:
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