Dancing with the two-headed tigress
By: Tina Biswas
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: ISIS
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780753177860; 9780753177877
Subjects: East Indians; Fiction
Description: When her boorish father dies, fat, unsophisticated Mousumi is sent from India to her cosmopolitan relations in London. For the glamour of the western world, she leaves behind both her forlorn mother and an amorous shopkeeper. On arrival, she is met by the Majumdar family: Prakash - a doctor with too much heart, great cook and man-about-the-house; Tuhina - a successful investment banker, indulgent mother and minder of Ps and Qs; and Darshini - a nonchalant eighteen-year-old, audacious coin-flipper and possessor of ethereal beauty. Such an offbeat household terrifies Mousumi - how will she fit in? Can she meet their high standards? And will she begin to question the life she has known?
Notes: Originally published: London: Doubleday, 2006.