{"title":"Fiction - World Literature - India - 20th Century","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"inside-the-mirror-9781496236784","title":"Inside the Mirror","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the AWP Prize for the Novel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Pattis Family Foundation Creative Arts Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2025 Georgia Author of the Year Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the Center for Fiction's 2024 First Novel Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the 2024 New American Voices Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHonorable Mention for the 2024 Foreword INDIES Book Award in Literary Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2024 Foreword INDIES Book Award in Multicultural Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2024 American Fiction Award in Literary Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2024 American Fiction Award in Multicultural Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Ms. Magazine's Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1950s Bombay, Jaya Malhotra studies medicine at the direction of her father, a champion of women's education who assumes the right to choose his daughters' vocations. A talented painter drawn to the city's dynamic new modern art movement, Jaya is driven by her desire to express both the pain and extraordinary force of life of a nation rising from the devastation of British rule. Her twin sister, Kamlesh, a passionate student of Bharata Natyam dance, complies with her father's decision that she become a schoolteacher while secretly pursuing forbidden dreams of dancing onstage and in the movies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Jaya moves out of her family home to live with a woman mentor, she suffers grievous consequences as a rare woman in the men's domain of art. Not only does her departure from home threaten her family's standing and crush her reputation; Jaya loses a vital connection to Kamlesh.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the AWP Prize for the Novel, Parul Kapur's \u003ci\u003eInside the Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e is set in the aftermath of colonialism, as an impoverished India struggles to remake itself into a modern state. Jaya's story encompasses art, history, political revolt, love, and women's ambition to seize their own power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Parul Kapur\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 358\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496236784\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards - Honorable Mention\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/22\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2024 pg. 30\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eParul Kapur\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Assam, India, grew up in the United States, and lives in Atlanta. She is a fiction writer, journalist, and literary critic whose writing has appeared in a number of publications, including \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePleiades\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArt in America\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGuernica\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e. 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