The Tree Bride (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Bharati Mukherjee
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1820-2001
- Setting: San Francisco and Sausalito, California; Mishtigunj, East Bengal, Bangladesh; Calcutta, Bombay, and Rishikesh, India; London; Brynnsmere, East Anglia, England
- Principal Characters: Tara Bhattacharjee, Bishwapriya (“Bish”) Chatterjee, Rabindranath ( “Rabi”) Chatterjee, Victoria Treadwell Khanna, Y ash Khanna, Virgil “Vertie” Treadwell, Tara Lata Gangooly, John Mist (Jack Snow), Abbas Sattar Hai
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Wives, Colonialism, Authors or writers, Immigration or emigration, Women, Muslims, India or East Indian people, Great Britain, Activism
- Locales: London, England, San Francisco, CA, India, Bombay, India, East Anglia, England, Calcutta, India
Bharati Mukherjee's fiction reflects her preoccupation with cultural conflicts, with the results of change, and with the influence of the past on the present. Typically her protagonists are Indian women raised in a society where life is governed by tradition, as interpreted and enforced by the older members of large extended families. When such women find themselves in the very different environment of the New World, the result can be disastrous; in Mukherjee's novel Wife (1975), an immigrant brought to the United States after an arranged marriage feels so lost that she descends...
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