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The Henna Artist
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Artikel-Nr:
9780778310204
Veröffentl:
2020
Erscheinungsdatum:
10.03.2020
Seiten:
342
Autor:
Alka Joshi
Gewicht:
380 g
Format:
228x154x27 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Born in India and raised in the U.S. since she was nine, Alka Joshi has a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from California College of Arts. Joshi's debut novel, The Henna Artist, immediately became a NYT bestseller, a Reese Witherspoon Bookclub pick, was Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, & is in development at Netflix as a TV series. The Secret Keeper of Jaipur (2021) and The Perfumist of Paris (2023) completed the Jaipur Trilogy. Her fourth novel, Six Days in Bombay, will be released in February 2025. She is currently working on her fifth novel.
For fans of Balli Kaur Jaswal s Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows and Thrity Umrigar s The Space Between Us, Alka Joshi s The Henna Artist by is lushly-rendered, emotional book club fiction set in post-Raj 1950s Jaipur about a young woman struggling to shape her own destiny in a world pivoting between the traditional and the modern.