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From the award-winning author of Mistress of Spices , the bestselling novel about the extraordinary bond between two women, and the family secrets and romantic jealousies that threaten to tear them apart. Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family of distinction. Her cousin Sudha... read more

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THEY SAY in the old tales that the first night after a child is born, the Bidhata Purush comes down to earth himself to decide what its fortune is to be.

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Book one: The Princess in the Place of Snakes
1. Sudha
2. Anju
3. Sudha
4. Anju
5. Sudha

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This book is in Endicott's Adult Fairy Tales Reading List. (community list)

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  1. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Doubleday
Country: United States
Publication Date: January 19, 1999
ISBN: 0385409230
Page Count: 336

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