The author Bharati Mukherjee lives her life with distinctly different experiences she has had throughout life. Because of this reason she has been described as a writer who has lived through several phases of life. At first she lives as a colonial, then national subject in India. After that she led a life of exile as a post-colonial Indian in Canada. Finally, she shifted into a celebratory mode as an immigrant and finally a citizen in the United States. She considers her work a celebration of her emotions that she brings out of her heart. Her main theme throughout her writing discusses the condition of Asian immigrants in North America, with particular attention to the changes taking place in South Asian women in a new world. She shows all her characters as survivors against the brutalities and violence surrounding them who are often victimized by various forms of social oppression. Her works are praiseworthy because of its prose style, ironic plot developments and witty observations. She always sees the world in a minute way and so do her characters. She is often racially categorized by her thematic focus and cultural origin. Bharati Mukherjee prefers to refer to herself as an American of Bengali-Indian origin. Synopsis: ![]() Being published by Grove Pr, Viking Books and Virago Press Ltd. 'Jasmine' is a story about a girl who is widowed at the age of seventeen years and eventually shifted to America. 'Jasmine' is an acclaimed work of Bharati Mukherjee. It is a novel that stems from an earlier short story from 'The Middleman and Other Stories.' This is a life story of a girl where the title character is the protagonist. The story is all about an Indian refugee who is empowered by the trials of assimilation. |