Sister of My Heart
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Julia Whelan
About this listen
From the award-winning author of Mistress of Spices, the best-selling novel about the extraordinary bond between two women, and the family secrets and romantic jealousies that threaten to tear them apart.
Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family of distinction. Her cousin Sudha is the daughter of the black sheep of that same family. Sudha is startlingly beautiful; Anju is not. Despite those differences, since the day on which 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 were merged.But when Sudha learns a dark family secret, that connection is shattered. For the first time in their lives, the girls know what it is to feel suspicion and distrust. Urged into arranged marriages, Sudha and Anju's lives take opposite turns. Sudha becomes the dutiful daughter-in-law of a rigid small-town household. Anju goes to America with her new husband and learns to live her own life of secrets. When tragedy strikes each of them, however, they discover that despite distance and marriage, they have only each other to turn to.
Set in the two worlds of San Francisco and India, this exceptionally moving novel tells a story at once familiar and exotic, seducing listeners from the first minute with the lush prose we have come to expect from Divakaruni. Sister of My Heart is a novel destined to become as widely beloved as it is acclaimed.
©1999 Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (P)2012 TantorCritic Reviews
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Lindy Banks
- 01-05-2024
Wonderful story that kept my interest throughout.
Hope to read more from this author, or even a sequel. Very realistic characters and interesting story. Great reader too!
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- Mitali
- 01-10-2023
Lovely story pity about the narration
I enjoyed the story but was ver disappointed with the narrator. Why was it so difficult to find an Indian voice which would have made the whole experience more authentic
Even the main characters names were mid pronounced as were many of the Bengali words. It made me wince at times and was very irritating. I have listened to Independence by the same author and read by an Indian and found it so much easier to listen to.
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