Home (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780571260652)

When their traditional business - selling saris - is increasingly sidelined by the new fashion for jeans and stitched salwar kameez, the Banwari Lal family must adapt. But instead of branching out, the sons remain apprenticed to the struggling shop and the daughters are confined to the family home. As envy and suspicion grip parents and children alike, the need for escape - whether through illicit love or in the making of pickles or the search for education - becomes ever stronger.

Very human and hugely engaging, Home is a masterful novel of the acts of kindness, compromise and secrecy that lie at the heart of every family.

Author: Manju Kapur
ISBN-10: 0571260659
ISBN-13: 9780571260652
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Language: English
Published: 11/18/2010
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback