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Uncorrected Proof. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 339. Pictorial wraps.

Author's third novel. When their traditional business – selling saris – is increasingly sidelined by the new fashion for jeans and stitched salwar kameez, the Banwari Lal family must adapt. A saga of Indian family life across three generations. Kapur's first novel, Difficult Daughters, won the 1999 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book, Europe and South Asia. "A very absorbing novel." –Daily Mail