Manju Kapur

Manju Kapur is the author of four novels. Her first, Difficult Daughters, won the Commonwealth Prize for First Novels (Eurasia Section) and was a number one bestseller in India. Her second novel A Married Woman was called 'fluent and witty' in the Independent, while her third, Home, was described as 'glistening with detail and emotional acuity' in the Sunday Times. Her most recent novel, The Immigrant, has been longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. She lives in New Delhi.

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Books by Manju Kapur

An intimate portrait of marriage and family from prize-winning author Manju Kapur.

When Shagun leaves her husband Raman for another man, a bitter legal battle ensues. The custody of their ...

Astha has everything an educated, middle-class Delhi woman could ask for - children, a dutiful loving husband, and comfortable surroundings. So why should she be consumed with a sense of unease ...

Tender and funny, Manju Kapur's third novel is an engrossing story of family life amid the bustle and commerce of the Banwari Lal Cloth Shop.

When their traditional Delhi ...

Set around the time of Partition and written with absorbing intelligence and sympathy, Difficult Daughters is the story of a young woman torn between the desire for education and the ...

An engrossing portrait of an arranged marriage, from the prize-winning author of Home and Difficult Daughters .

Nina is a thirty-year-old English lecturer in New Delhi, living with her widowed mother ...

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