Arranged Marriage: Stories
New York: Anchor Books, Doubleday, 1995. Divakaruni's first collection of stories, was published to great critical acclaim. It won an American Book Award, a PEN Josephine Miles award, and a Bay Area Book Reviewers Award and went on to become a bestseller. Adopted as a text in many college classes, the collection focuses on immigrants from India caught between two worlds. The characters are both liberated and trapped by cultural changes as they struggle to carve out an identity of their own, creating eleven unforgettable portraits of women on the verge of transformation.
ISBN: 9780385475587
13 x 8½". 307. 9780385475587. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED on title page. Original tan paper over cream cloth boards, copper gilt letters to spine. Purple endpapers, 307 pp., with glossary at end. Tiny bumps to bottom boards, else a Fine copy in a Fine Dust Jacket in protective cover.
ID# 21778
$30.00