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"The highlight of her career to date . . . Mukherjee bursts out as a star" (Publishers Weekly <starred review>) in her stirring novel of three women, two continents, and a perilous journey from the old world to the new -- now available in paperback. In the tradition of the Joy Luck... read more

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In the mind's eye, one-way procession of flickering oil lamps sways along the muddy shanko between rice paddies and flooded ponds, and finally disappears into a distant wall of impenetrable jungle.
 

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