Author: Shobha DePublisher: PenguinYear: 1996Language: EnglishPages: 289ISBN/UPC (if available): 0140255672 DescriptionA bittersweet love story for the Nineties. The new bestseller from India's biggest selling novelist. It seems like the perfect match. Maya is pretty, young, eager to escape her dull, middle-class home in Calcutta and plunge into the whirl of Bombay, where she moves after marriage. Ranjan, handsome, hard-driving and ambitious, has all the glamour of an American university degree and a wealthy family background.Maya is determined to be the ideal wife,. Instead, she finds herself trapped and stifled by the confines of an arranged marriage to a man who, she discovers, is rigidly conservative and completely indifferent to her desires. She begins to experience, too, the utter loneliness of a stranger in suburban Bombay.And then she strikes up a friendship with Nikhil, her charming, college-going neighbor, and the stage is set for an explosive tale of love, betrayal and paths not taken.
