Shilpi Somaya Gowda

Secret Daughter (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Moving and thought-provoking and informative and imaginative and beautifully executed. What a wonderful story!
Mary Jane Clark

This book is a must for anyone touched by adoption, or India, or the delicate dynamic between adolescent girls and their mothers.
Sujata Massey, author of Shimura Trouble

Secret Daughter, a first novel by Shilpi Somaya Gowda, explores powerfully and poignantly the emotional terrain of motherhood, loss, identity, and love through the experiences of two familiesone Indian, one Americanand the child that binds them together. A masterful work set partially in the Mumbai slums so vividly portrayed in the hit film Slumdog Millionaire, Secret Daughter recalls the acclaimed novels of Kim Edwards and Thrity Umrigar, yet sparkles with the freshness of a truly exciting new literary voice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780061981463
• Artikelnr.: 38004071

Autorenporträt

Shilpi Somaya Gowda was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. Her previous novels, Secret Daughter, The Golden Son, and The Shape of Family became international bestsellers, selling over two million copies worldwide, in over 30 languages. She holds degrees from Stanford University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was a Morehead-Cain scholar. She lives in California with her husband and children.