The Tiger's Daughter

0-395-12715-7OCLC217219813/.5/4LC ClassPZ4.M9555 Ti3 PR9499.3.M77Preceded byN/A Followed byWife (1975) 

The Tiger's Daughter (1971) is the first novel by Indian American author Bharati Mukherjee.

Plot summary

The story revolves around Tara who was raised in Calcutta, educated at Vassar College in New York and is married to an American man. The novel explores her sense of culture shock when she travels back to India intertwined with the political situation in Calcutta and West Bengal.

Publication history

• Hardcover – ISBN 0-395-12715-7, published in 1971 by Houghton Mifflin
• Paperback – ISBN 0-449-22100-8, published in 1992 by Fawcett Crest

External links

• Powell's book review