Ronica Dhar captures the struggles of family and cultural identity with such tenderness and depth of feeling that she makes these subjects completely her own. "Bijou Roy" is a thoughtful, elegant novel. --Ann Patchett. Bijou Roy's life in Washington, D.C. is not thrilling but it is steady. When she loses her father to a long illness, she travels to India to scatter his remains in the river that runs through his native city. With the weight of her grief still fresh, she leaves a career and relationship in limbo only to be thrust into unfamiliar territory. Never having fully understood why her parents severed their ties to India, she is drawn to Naveen, the son of her father's closest comrade. Naveen holds over Bijou intimate details of their fathers' past and their political involvements.
"A jewel of a story...Dhar reveals the richness and complexity of love, of family, and of nationhood."--Abraham Verghese, "New York"" Times" bestselling author of "Cutting for Stone
""Ronica Dhar captures the struggles of family and cultural identity with such tenderness and depth of feeling that she makes these subjects completely her own. "Bijou Roy" is a thoughtful, elegant novel."--Ann Patchett
"A beautifully constructed novel... Touching, lyrical, and sly, "Bijou Roy" continually takes us by surprise--and leaves us with the sense of something precious on every page."--Charles Baxter
"Propelled by skillful, luminous prose."--"Publishers Weekly""Here's to Ronica Dhar and Bijou Roy, two flashing new stars in the literary heavens. A wonderfully smart and soulful novel, beyond all first-novel qualifications. Plain good."--Beverly Lowry"With harrowing honesty and exquisite grace, Ronica Dhar's debut fully inhabits the immigrant experience of two generations of a family and then
Title: Bijou Roy
Subtitle: A Novel
Contributors:
By (author)
Ronica Dhar
ISBN 13: 9781250002167
ISBN 10: 1250002168
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Imprint: St Martin's Press
Publication Date: 1/07/2012
Place of Publication:
New York,
United States
Edition:
BIC Subjects:
Modern fiction
Dewey Classification:
813.6
(DC23)
;
813.6
(DC21)
NBS Classification: General & Literary Fiction
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Height: 210mm
Width: 140mm
Thickness: 18mm
Weight: 141g