Bharati Mukherjee
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- Author: Bharati Mukherjee
Biography
Bharati Mukherjee (MOO-kehr-jee) has become one of the literary voices whose skillful depictions of the non-European immigrant experience in the United States she credits with “subverting the very notion of what the American novel is and of what American culture is.” Born in Calcutta to an affluent Bengali family, Mukherjee’s life early assumed an international flavor as her father’s pharmaceutical career took the family to England and Switzerland. Fluent in English at an early age, Mukherjee entered an English-language convent school upon her return to...
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