Night jasmine tree : bittersweet stories of an Indian youth / Debu Majumdar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Majumdar, D. (Debu), author.

Contributor:

Singh Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hindus.

Caste-based discrimination.

Families.

Retired teachers.

East Indian Americans.

India.

United States.

East Indian Americans--Family relationships--Fiction.

Retired teachers--United States--Fiction.

Families--India--Fiction.

Caste-based discrimination--India--Fiction.

Hindus--India--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

306, v pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First U.S. print edition.

Place of Publication:

Bellingham, Washington : Bo-Tree House, 2021.

Summary:

After his father disowns him over a forbidden love with a lower caste girl, Shankar, consumed by anger, marries her anyway and emigrates to the US to start a new life--completely cutting himself off from his family in India and vowing never to speak of them again. Now in retirement, as he tells stories from his childhood to his grandchildren, they generate the double-edged effect of charming his grandchildren and at the same time taking up suppressed, unhappy memories. These arresting stories of his life reveal the silent torment and struggle that originated with his extremely conservative family and grow more crushing every day. These stories, touching and sublime by themselves, provide the structure of this novel, showing unfulfilled promises, dereliction of family responsibility, and miss opportunities that exacerbate Shankar's anguish. Will the past destroy him?

Notes:

Subtitle from cover.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Singh Family Fund.

ISBN:

9780996851671

0996851674

9780996851657

0996851658

OCLC:

1262577131