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Sister of My Heart by Chitra Divakaruni SIGNED -- (Hardcover) -- LIKE NEW -- Stated 1999 First Edition with Full Number Line (see graphic below). Gorgeous, gift quality copy! 
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Copyright page. Author's signature is clearly visible from the back. Stated First Edition and Full Number Line (where the numbers go: 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 - which means it's a First Printing). Combined Shipping $1.00 per additional book! I SHIP WORLDWIDE. I SHIP GIFTS. Duncan's IMHO assessment :-) LIKE NEW Dust jacket: super clean with only the slightest hint of shelf wear, tiny amount of curl at spine ends. Less wear than many books get being browsed in a bookstore. Price NOT clipped. Hardcover: green cloth over spine with gold lettering, green paper over boards (both cloth and paper match the green used at the top of the dust jacket. Nice). Purple endpapers match purple of dust jacket. A couple of tiny dings to bottom edges of boards. Spine is square, binding is tight, corners are good, pages white and clean. This is SUCH a nice copy! Book is clean, tight and sound. Sharp, signed copy. Book has been read, but I wouldn't hesitate to give this copy as a gift. NO writing, price clipping, price tags or dog ears in this book. NOT a library book or remainder. Descriptions: (not the opinion of the seller) Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Doubleday; 1st edition (January 19, 1999) ISBN-10: 0385409230 Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 1.2 inches Product Description Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family of distinction. Sudha is the daughter of the black sheep of that same family. Sudha is startlingly beautiful; Anju is not. Despite these differences, since the day the two girls were born--the same day their fathers died, mysteriously and violently--Sudha and Anju have been sisters of the heart. Bonded in ways even their mothers cannot comprehend, the two girls grow into womanhood as if their fates, as well as their hearts, are merged. When Sudha learns a dark family secret, that connection is threatened. For the first time in their lives, the girls know what it is to feel suspicion and distrust--Sudha, because she feels a new shame that she cannot share with Anju; and Anju, because she discovers the seductive power of her sister's beauty, a power Sudha herself is incapable of controlling. When, due to a change in family fortune, the girls are urged into arranged marriages, their lives take opposite turns. One travels to America, and one remains in India; both have lives of secrets. When tragedy strikes both of them, however, they discover that, despite distance and marriage, they must turn to each other once again. Exceptionally moving, dramatic, and exquisitely rendered, Sister of My Heart is a passionate novel about the extraordinary bond between two women, and the jealousies, loves, and family histories that threaten to tear them apart. Only a novelist of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's sensitivity could create a tale as potent as it is poignant, and as true to the complexities of the human heart. Review Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni made an indelible impression on the literary world with her first novel, The Mistress of Spices, a magical tale of love and herbs. Sister of My Heart is less reliant on enchantment but no less enchanting as it tells the tale of two cousins born on the same day, their premature births brought on by a mysterious occurrence that claims the lives of both their fathers. Sudha is beautiful, Anju is not; yet the girls love each other as sisters, the bond between them so strong it seems nothing can break it. When both are pushed into arranged marriages, however, each discovers a devastating secret that changes their relationship forever. Sister of My Heart spans many years and zigzags between India and America as the cousins first grow apart and then eventually reunite. Divakaruni invests this domestic drama with poetry as she traces her heroines' lives from infancy to motherhood, but it is Sudha and Anju who give the story its backbone. Anju might speak for both when she says, "In spite of all my insecurities, in spite of the oceans that'll be between us soon and the men that are between us already, I can never stop loving Sudha. It's my habit, and it's my fate." Book lovers may well discover that reading Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is habit-forming as well. --Margaret Prior From Publishers Weekly Like the old tales of India that are filled with emotional filigree and flowery prose, Divakaruni's (The Mistress of Spices) latest work is a masterful allegory of unfulfilled desire and sacrificial love. It is also an intricate modern drama in which generations and castes struggle over old and new mores. Anju and Sudha are cousins, born in the same household in Calcutta on the same day?which is also the day on which their mothers learn that both their husbands have been killed in a reckless quest for a cave full of rubies. Sudha grows up believing her father was a no-good schemer who brought ruin on his cousin, Anju's upper-class father. As they mature, Anju dreams of college, Sudha of children, but arranged marriages divide and thwart them. Anju adjusts to life in California with a man who lusts after Sudha; Sudha grapples with a mother-in-law who turns to the goddess Shasti to fill Sudha's barren womb rather than to a doctor for her sterile son. Ultimately, the tie between Anju and Sudha supersedes all other love, as each sustains painful loss to save the other. When Sudha learns the truth about her father and no longer needs to right his wrongs, she sees that all along her affection for Anju has not been dictated by necessity. An inspired and imaginative raconteur, Divakaruni is sure to engender comparisons with Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things), but Divakaruni's novel stands in its own right as a compelling read. If her prose sometimes veers toward the purple, her mesmerizing narrative sustains it well. About the Author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, born in India, is an award-winning poet. In 1995 her short story collection, Arranged Marriage, was awarded the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Prize for Fiction, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award for Fiction, and an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. She is also the author of the bestselling novel The Mistress of Spices, and four poetry collections, including Leaving Yuba City. NOTE: International Shipping will be USPS First Class Mail International up to 4 pounds. This service currently does not offer tracking numbers or delivery confirmation, but is much cheaper than Priority Mail. Any level of service is available upon request. 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