{"product_id":"jasmine-7","title":"Jasmine","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Jasmine Vijh is suddenly widowed at seventeen, she seems fated to a future of quiet isolation in a small Indian village. But, voracious for life, she flees to America. Six years on she has become Jane Ripplemeyer, resident of Iowa, married to a middle-aged banker and adoptive mother of a Vietnamese refugee.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Jasmine's odyssey through America, rippling with energy and daring, reflects Mukherjee's preoccupation with the fractured lives of exiles and immigrants caught up in a painful yet exhilarating cross-cultural metamorphosis. In this uncompromising novel that draws on all the strengths of the award-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Middleman and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e and carries them to a new level of perception and intensity, Bharati Mukherjee has given us a heroine's 'greedy with wants and reckless with hope' - and leaves us breathless with surprise.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54258211225944,"sku":"9781853812781","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781853812781.jpg?v=1764579637","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/jasmine-7","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}