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In a world of rapidly changing values and traditions, an Indian woman enters into an arranged marriage to a man she barely knows and moves to distant Canada. Thirty-year-old Nina is an English teacher living alone in Jangpura, India. With diminishing prospects, she agrees to an arranged union. Her groom is the Indian-born Ananda, who lives in Canada. He once dreamed of becoming a doctor but settled for dentistry. He is lonely, and also in want of a spouse. Their life together is not what either expected. Unable to find work teaching in Nova Scotia, Nina takes a job at the local library. Ananda is troubled by his own response to the sexual aspects of their relationship. Assimilating into a new culture pales in comparison to the trials of marriage - its ups and downs, its inevitable compromises... and the temptations of illicit passion.
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"Manju Kapur has a non-commonplace gift for writing about commonplace people without exaggerating their dullness for effect or falling into dullness herself... [She] is very good at reckoning the profits and the losses resulting from muddle. Though its scope is narrower and its mode more comic, we can read her novel as A Passage to Canada, and be as certain as we are with EM Forster of the author'
Ursula K. Le Guin
"Intensely readable."
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