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Sister of My Heart is a novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. First published in 1999, this novel was followed in 2002 by a sequel The Vine of Desire. The story centers on two Indian girls, Anju and Sudha. The girls narrate their life stories in alternating chapters.
Jan 18, 2000 · Anju and Sudha #1. Sister of My Heart. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. 4.00. 20,439 ratings1,677 reviews. Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family; her cousin Sudha is the daughter of the black sheep of the family.
A national bestseller translated into over 20 languages, Sister of My Heart (Doubleday/Anchor) is the tale of two women, best friends whose lives are transformed by marriage, as one woman comes to California, and the other stays behind in India.
Sister of My Heart follows the life of two Indian cousins, Anju and Sudha, who grow up as sisters in a household presided over by three widowed “mothers”: Gouri (Anju’s biological mother), Nalini (Sudha’s biological mother), and Pishi (a widowed aunt).
From the award-winning author of Mistress of Spices, the bestselling novel about the extraordinary bond between two women, and the family secrets and romantic jealousies that threaten to tear them apart. Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family of distinction.
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
From the award-winning author of Mistress of Spices, the bestselling novel about the extraordinary bond between two women, and the family secrets and romantic jealousies that threaten to tear them...
Closer even than sisters, they share clothes, possessions, worries, dreams - and three mothers, who preside over the matriarchal Chatterjee household. But when Sudha...
by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. 3.53 · 4,097 Ratings · 309 Reviews · published 2002 · 30 editions. The beloved characters of Chitra Banerjee Divakaru… Want to Read. Rate it: Sister of My Heart (Anju and Sudha #1) and The Vine Of Desire (Anju and Sudha, #2)
For the first time in their lives, the girls know what it is to feel suspicion and distrust - Sudha, because she feels a new shame that she cannot share with Anju; and Anju, because she discovers...
Feb 29, 2024 · Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s novel Sister of My Heart (1999) relates the emotional story of two young Calcutta girls—Anju, who is from a high caste in India, and Sudha, who is more...
