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Sister of my Heart by |
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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(b. 1957) is an author and professor of English at the University of Houston. She was born in Kolkata, India. She emigrated to the United States where she attended Wright State University and received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Her collection of short stories, Arranged Marriages, won the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Prize for Fiction, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award for Fiction, and an American Book Award. Her novel, The Mistress of Spices, was released as a film in 2005. It is directed by Paul Mayeda Berges, with a script by Berges and his wife, Gurinder Chadha. The film stars Aishwarya Rai. In addition, her novel Sister of my Heart was made into a television series in Tamil and aired in India, as Anbulla Snegithiye (Loving Friend) (From Wikipedia, The free Encyclopedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/)
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| The novel |
Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family of distinction. Sudha is the daughter of the black sheep of the same family. Sudha is startlingly beautiful; Anju is not. Despite these differences, since the day on which the two girls were born--the same day their fathers died, mysteriously and violently--Sudha and Anju have been sisters of the heart. Bonded in ways even their mothers cannot comprehend, the two girls grow into womanhood as if their fates, as well as their hearts, are merged.
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