Queen of Dreams Contributor(s): Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee (Author) |
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ISBN: 1400030447 ISBN-13: 9781400030446 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2005 Annotation: In her most spellbinding novel, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni spins a fresh, enchanting story of transformation that is as lyrical as it is dramatic. Rakhi, a young artist and divorced mother living in Berkeley, California, is struggling to keep her footing with her family and with a world in alarming transition. Her mother is a dream teller, born with the ability to share and interpret the dreams of others, to foresee and guide them through their fates. This gift of vision fascinates Rakhi but also isolates her from her mother's past in India and the dream world she inhabits, and she longs for something to bring them closer. Caught beneath the burden of her own painful secret, Rakhi's solace comes in the discovery, after her mother's death, of her dream journals, which begin to open the long-closed door to her past. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Women - Fiction | Cultural Heritage |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 0.77" H x 5.32" W x 7.98" (0.58 lbs) 352 pages |
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Publisher Description: From the bestselling author of Sister of My Heart comes a spellbinding tale of mothers and daughters, love and cultural identity. Rakhi, a young painter and single mother, is struggling to come to terms with her relationship with ex-husband Sonny, a hip Bay Area DJ, and with her dream-teller mother, who has rarely spoken about her past or her native India. Rakhi has her hands full, juggling a creative dry spell, raising her daughter, and trying to save the Berkeley teahouse she and her best friend Belle own. But greater challenges are to come. When a national tragedy turns her world upside down and Rakhi needs her mother's strength and wisdom more than ever, she loses her in a freak car accident. But uncovering her mother's dream journals allows Rakhi to discover her mother's long-kept secrets and sacrifices-and ultimately to confront her fears, forge a new relationship with her father, and revisit Sonny's place in her heart. |