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Title: Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee ISBN: 0-8021-3630-3 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 09 April, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.65 (34 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The American Identity
Comment: I am a high school sophomore at a boarding school. I read Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee as an independent reading assignment. This is a story of a young girl forced to grow up, while trying to find who she is.
Throughout the novel, we become acquainted with five women who are one and the same. We watch as Jyoti goes from the young, timid village girl to the strong American Jase, who knows exactly want she wants. She goes through many obstacles before she can just be happy. Through these obstacles, she also takes on different personas.
I think Mukherjee had Jasmine go through everything she did for a reason. There is a purpose for everything in life. Jasmine's long journey made her stronger in the end.
I think that the story is very well written and it gives young people, woman in particular, hope. Even if things don't seem to be going the way you think they should, you can overcome. That's what this book says to me. I would recommend this book to teenage girls that are searching for an identity.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Many Lives of Jasmine
Comment: An astrologer tells Jasmine at the age of seven that she is going to be widowed by the time she is fifteen. After the astrologer's prediction comes true, Jasmine decides to move to a small city in Iowa. Coming from India, she refers to Iowa as the new "Third World". During her lifetime, Jasmine travels to many places where she is given different names. These various names identify her as a new person by the influential men of her life. For example she is given the name "Jase" from her professor and the name "Jane" from her husband. This helps Jasmine to conceal her ethnic difference, and it enables her to survive in this strange, new world. Jasmine believes she is born more than once. Thus, her changing names reflect her rebirths. Jasmine's journey serves as a metaphor for the ever-moving, regenerating process of life itself. Overall, this book forces the reader to see America from a different point of view as a "Third World".
Rating: 4
Summary: Engrossing
Comment: This novel is about an ambitious woman. She is born Jyoti in a small village in terrorism ridden Punjab and is transformed into Jasmine,Jase and Jane though a journey that is marked by widowhood, murder, rape, illegal documents and an uncanny instinct to survive through all situations. Jasmine is not a character you'd love to love, but she embodies the human spirit. A sixth-grade educated minor widow yearns to move out of her dark life and lands up in America, the land of freedom and choices.
The narrative is not linear - flashbacks are interspersed with current happenings. The writing style seems appropriate for the story. The entire story is mainly about the woman Jasmine but the background effectively captures the nature and force of the changing times.
Why didn't I give this 5 stars ? Well first of all, the character of Prakash was somewhat less believable to me. I wouldnt bet on a REAL Prakash to marry a 14 yr. old. Secondly, the end to the novel is rather abrupt(I thought a few pages were missing in my copy of the novel !!).
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Title: Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukherjee ISBN: 0786885157 Publisher: Hyperion Pub. Date: 12 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Middleman and Other Stories by Bharati Mukherjee ISBN: 0802136508 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Holder of the World by Bharati Mukherjee ISBN: 0449909662 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 09 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: No-No Boy by John Okada, Lawson Fusao Inada, Frank Chin ISBN: 0295955252 Publisher: University of Washington Press Pub. Date: December, 1980 List Price(USD): $12.89 |
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Title: The Woman Warrior : Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston ISBN: 0679721886 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 23 April, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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