{"product_id":"jasmine","title":"Jasmine","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u0026amp;quto;Lifetimes ago, under a banyan tree in the village of Hasnapur, an astrologer cupped his ear ... and foretold my widowhood and exile,\" relates Jyoti, fifth cursed daughter in a family of nine. Though she can't escape fate, Jyoti reinvents herself time and again. She leaves her dusty Punjabi village to marry as Jasmine; travels rough, hidden airways and waters to America to reemerge as Jase, an illegal \"day mummy\" in hip Manhattan; and lands beached in Iowa's farmlands as Jane, mother to an adopted teenage Vietnamese refugee and \"wife\" to a banker. Bharati Mukherjee ( The Middleman and Other Stories ) makes each world exotic, her lyrical prose broken only by the violence Jasmine almost casually recounts and survives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Trafalgar Square\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781853810619\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Trafalgar Square","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £1.00","offer_id":47918338113713,"sku":"SB-1853810614-C3","price":1.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/1853810614.png?v=1789331191","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/jasmine","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}