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"Enchanting! Mukherjee's pitch-perfect ear for character and mood and her storytelling gifts capture the exhilarating restlessness of a young Indian woman's pursuit of happiness. Miss New India illuminates as brilliantly as it entertains." —Amy Tan
Anjali Bose’s prospects don’t look great. Born into a traditional lower-middle‑class family, she lives in a backwater town with only an arranged marriage on the horizon. But her ambition, charm, and fluency in language do not go unnoticed by her charismatic and influential expat teacher, Peter Champion. And champion her he does, both to powerful people who can help her along the way and to Anjali herself, stirring in her a desire to take charge of her own destiny.
- Sales Rank: #1023786 in Books
- Brand: Mukherjee, Bharati
- Published on: 2012-06-19
- Released on: 2012-06-19
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .79" w x 5.31" l, .70 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 336 pages
Amazon.com Review
Anjali Bose is “Miss New India.” Born into a traditional lower-middle-class family and living in a backwater town with an arranged marriage on the horizon, Anjali’s prospects don’t look great. But her ambition and fluency in language do not go unnoticed by her expat teacher, Peter Champion. And champion her he does, both to other powerful people who can help her along the way and to Anjali herself, stirring in her a desire to take charge of her own destiny.
So she sets off to Bangalore, India’s fastest-growing major metropolis, and quickly falls in with an audacious and ambitious crowd of young people, who have learned how to sound American by watching shows like Seinfeld in order to get jobs as call-center service agents, where they are quickly able to out-earn their parents. And it is in this high-tech city where Anjali—suddenly free from the traditional confines of class, caste, gender, and more—is able to confront her past and reinvent herself. Of course, the seductive pull of modernity does not come without a dark side.
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1) Téa Obrecht, The Tiger’s Wife
2) Jennifer Egan, A Visit From the Goon Squad
3) Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
4) Clark Blaise, The Meagre Tarmac
5) Gustave Flaubert, (translated by Lydia Davis), Madame Bovary
6) Abraham Verghese, Cutting For Stone
Non-Fiction:
1) Doug Saunders, Arrival City2) Simon Winchester, The Alice Behind Wonderland
3) Ben Ryder Howe, My Korean Deli
4) (trans. Wheeler Thackston), The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor A Note from the Author
Dear Amazon Readers:
I grew up in Kolkata, India, in a large and loving, traditionally patriarchal Hindu family, headed by my father. Though my father was not the eldest male in the extended Mukherjee family, he had been co-opted as patriarch because he was the most educated, and had founded a prosperous pharmaceutical company. I watched my father accustom himself to the demands of the role of patriarch, which meant having to provide for, and to protect, scores of uncles, aunts, cousins, and strangers who claimed to be our distant relatives. For him, as with Anjali Bose’s father in my novel, Miss New India, discharging duty was the utmost expression of love.
In families like mine, a father’s greatest obligation was to marry off his daughter to a good provider. With that in mind, my father sent me to Loreto House, the school of choice for over-sheltered girls from well-off families in Kolkata. It was an English-medium school, run by Irish nuns from Galway. The nuns’ goal was to groom us to become wives of the city’s future leaders. We were being trained to be chaste and graceful young women who spoke English as fluently as we did our mother-tongue. To improve our English vocabulary, the nuns encouraged us to read British novels. My two favorite novels were W. M. Thackeray’s Vanity Fair and Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. I was entranced by the adventures of gutsy, ambitious Becky Sharp and Jane Eyre, because they each had to make their her way in life without any help from protective, well-connected parents. My admiration for those fictional, self-made women who surmounted obstacles in their pursuits of love and happiness may have contributed to my having jettisoned myself out of my father’s patriarchal reach and the comforting familiarity of my hometown by marrying—much to my father’s consternation—--an American fellow- student after a two-week courtship at the University of Iowa’s famous Writers’ Workshop.
I became fascinated with India-based call-center employees and their dual identities (American at work; Indian at home) when, some years ago, I was activating a credit card on the phone, and the agent at the other end of the line struggled valiantly to disguise her Indian English accent and pass herself off as a mid-western American. The character of Anjali/Angie Bose jelled for me while I was visiting my first cousin and her husband, retired UN personnel in their retirement home in Bangalore, the IT hub in India. My cousin had invited a family with a twenty-something daughter who was working as a customer support agent in a call-center. The parents had wanted to meet me because they had read my novels and because they knew I lived in San Francisco and hoped that I could put them in touch with rich, Silicon Valley–-based potential bridegrooms. The afternoon started off amiably, with the parents exaggerating the accomplishments of their daughter and wondering out loud why she was still unmarried. But midway through the visit, the daughter began to show her rebellious side. She told her father to back off matchmaking, which led to an ugly shouting match. The visit had to be aborted when both daughter and father had a public “melt-down” in my cousin’s living -room. Later that week, she came to see me by herself, and talked compellingly about her conflicts with her traditional, controlling parents and about her hopes and ambitions for herself. Through her I met many of her call-center friends—, adventurous, young, working women from families of modest means, stuck in provincial towns. They talked freely to me about their hopes for themselves and the pride they took in being financially independent. They were lively women, many of them away from home and vigilant family chaperones for the first time, and eager for romance even if it didn’t lead to marriage. They inspired me with their conviction that they had an inalienable right to personal happiness. They saw themselves as pioneers of a sort, in charge of their futures, accountable for their failures as well as their successes. They shared their dreams with me, some of them said, because they saw me as an early version of themselves. I saw them as brave time-travelers moving away from the torpors of tradition and eventless adolescence, heading into a dazzling, technologically advanced future packed with events.
--Bharati Mukherjee From Booklist
*Starred Review* Who better to capture the seismic shifts under way in India as the digital revolution takes hold than laser-precise and sharply witty Mukherjee? In each of her dramatic, slyly satirical novels, she dissects the legacy of colonialism, the paradoxes of technology, and the traditions that shackle Indian women. Mukherjee subtly continues the stories of the sisters from Desirable Daughters (2002) and The Tree Bride (2004) as she introduces Anjali Bose, a smart, rebellious 19-year-old who flees her provincial town after her father's attempt to arrange her marriage goes catastrophically wrong. With the help of her scholarly, covertly gay, expat American teacher, Anjali finds refuge in a decaying mansion, a remnant of the Raj, in Bangalore, the booming capital of call centers and electronic start-ups. There the brave country girl undergoes a crash course in urban life and the fizzing world of outsourcing, avatars, and social networks. Each character fascinates, and every detail glints with irony and intent, as Mukherjee brilliantly choreographs her compelling protagonist's struggles against betrayal, violence, and corruption in a dazzling plot that cunningly considers forms of tyranny blatant and insidious in a metamorphosing society. Mukherjee's resilient Miss New India takes as her mantra a line from her photographer friend: "Nothing in the world is as it seems--it's all a matter of light and angles." HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Acclaimed Mukherjee's take on outsourcing and India's rise will provoke lively discussion. --Donna Seaman
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"Enchanting! Mukherjee's pitch-perfect ear for character and mood and her story-telling gifts capture the exhilarating restlessness of a young Indian woman's pursuit of happiness. Miss New India illuminates as brilliantly as it entertains."
—Amy Tan
—Kirkus Reviews
"Each character fascinates, and every detail glints with irony and intent, as Mukherjee brilliantly choreographs her compelling protagonist's struggles against betrayal, violence, and corruption in a dazzling plot."
—Booklist (starred)
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19 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
Fabulous look at the "New India"
By Jill Meyer
Bharati Mukherjee's new novel "Miss New India" is an engaging look at the changes that have swept India in the past twenty or so years, as advances in technology have opened doors to new-found prosperity and many young, savvy, and ambitious Indians have poured through those doors.
Anjali Bose is a lucky young lady in many ways. She's smart and good with languages and very pretty. Not "Bollywood" beautiful, but playfully attractive. She draws people to her with a magnetic personality. But at age 19, she is at a crossroads in her life. Her parents are trying to arrange a marriage for her; that's what proper young middle-class women aspire to. A home with a husband and children, and very little use of the good education she has received in Guaripur. She is resisting the whole marriage-at-an-early-age, and in that she has the support of one of her teachers. Peter Champion, an American who has landed in Guaripur twenty or so years before, sees possibilities far beyond the small town world for Anjali Bose. After a botched attempt at match-making with a seemingly perfect "boy", Anjali flees her parents' home and Guaipur for the booming city of Bangalore. She's aided by Peter Champion, who gives her money and some contacts in Bangalore.
Anjali eventually reaches Bangalore and she realises that "New India" is open for her. A few adventures and those contacts help Anjali reach for the top. Bharati Mukherjee is a joyous writer and she opens up modern-day India to the reader with a richness of characters and plot in her novel. Not a "Cinderella story", we see Anjali succeed by using her wits, beauty, and charm, helped along with a good amount of luck. There's not necessarily a "Prince Charming" at the end of the book, but Anjali learns that she can make her way without one. Mukharjee's other characters are so well drawn that the reader feels as comfortable with them as they do with Anjali.
All in all, a wonderful and fun novel.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Plot Feels Thin, Slow, and Twice-Told
By Stephanie De Pue
"Miss New India," is the latest novel from award-winning Indian-American author Bharati Mukherjee. The author, who has won the National Book Critics Circle Award, has published seven previous novels, and two story collections. In MISS NEW INDIA, Mukherjee subtly continues the stories of the Indian sisters from her popular previous publications Desirable Daughters: A Novel (2002), andThe Tree Bride (2004). The writer here introduces us to Anjali Bose ("Call Me Angie"), a smart, rebellious, 19-year old, who may be considered the "Miss New India." Angie has been born into a traditional lower-middle-class family; her dad is a railways clerk, a job sanctioned and sanctified by generations of Indians; but a job with rather pinched horizons. The family lives in Gauripur, a dusty backwater town in the state of Bihar. And Angie's Dad is seeking to enforce a traditional arranged marriage on her. So Anjali's prospects don't look great. But Angie has good looks - although not traditional Indian looks-- as she is rather tall and slim, and has light-colored eyes. And a great smile. As well as ambition and fluency in the English language. All this does not go unnoticed by her expatriate university English teacher, the American Peter Champion. So champion her he does, with financial help, and by giving her introductions to powerful people he knows from his other lives, who can help her along.
Champion also stimulates Angie's ambition, and, eventually, her father's efforts at making an arranged match for her having ended in all-around disaster, she secretly sets off to Bangalore. That's India's fastest-growing major metropolis, a high-tech heaven, where an audacious and ambitious crowd of young people, just like her, who have learned how to sound American by watching shows like SEINFELD, get jobs as call-center service agents. And they quickly earn more than their parents ever did. These young people, with whom Angie falls in, of course, live high on the hog, and, as they are suddenly free from the traditional confines of class, caste, gender, and more--are able to confront their pasts and reinvent themselves. But, of course, we know that everything modern is not necessarily wonderful.
The author was born to wealthy Bengali Hindu parents in Calcutta, India. In 1947, she moved to Britain with her family, at the age of eight; they lived there for three and a half years, then returned to India. Mukherjee got her B.A. from the University of Calcutta, and her M.A. in English and Ancient Indian Culture from the University of Baroda. She was awarded a scholarship from the University of Iowa, where she earned an M.F.A. in Creative Writing in 1963, and her Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature in 1969. While there, she met and married a Canadian student from Harvard. The pair have taught all over Canada and the U.S.A. Mukherjee, however, did not care for the way Canada treats its Indian immigrants, and is now happy to consider herself an American: she is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Mukherjee does an excellent job of giving us India on the page: its sights, sounds, smells, society, flora, fauna, food, history, and clothing. She sometimes gives us almost too much loving detail - and I always love detail; and she lives up to her reputation for witty satire. The book has loads of charm, and is well-written. I'm not familiar with her previous work, however, and so cannot compare this novel to its predecessors; but I can say that the plot of this one feels kind of thin and slow-moving to me, and sometimes has the feeling of a twice-told tale. I can also say that, if there are any young Indian women reading this book, who also happen to find themselves caught up in the marital sweepstakes, for heaven's sake, don't take Angie as a role model. Her behavior is sometimes puzzling, and not particularly moral. And even the tallest, slimmest, lightest-eyed girls, with the best smiles, and the best English, really cannot expect the deus ex machina that delivers such a happy ending to our girl Angie to deliver anything similar to them.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Next stop, Bollywood?
By Tell Me A Story
This story is about a poor, small town girl seeking a new life in the newly transformed India in Bangalore (which sounds comparable to New York City) after she realizes she has no desire to pursue an arranged marriage. As she flees in the night, she realizes that her dream is fraught with challenges and dangers, she never imagined existed but Anjali will not be deterred to aspire to be a Call Center Agent.
I was disappointed in this book for a variety of reasons. Many reviewers (Hats off to Evie) have already done an excellent job assessing this novel's weaknesses, so I will mention what bothered me most.
One of the first thoughts I had is how it emulates the Horatio Alger's stories from the mid to late 1800s. These stories were formulaic in nature where poor, young men rise from their humble beginnings to accomplish success and respectability through hard work, determination, courage and honesty. Unfortunately, this story didn't incorporate these four aspects. Whatever, conflict Angali (who transforms herself to Angie) faces, she will manage to overcome all obstacles to accomplish her success but not necessarily in an honorable way.
The story has way too many characters whose sole purpose is is to get Angie through her current conflict or onto her next adventure. Had the story been better written, less characters would have been needed.
Moreover, Angie uses her connections often in an manipulative manner and a few use her too. While, her dishonesty and manipulation made her more human, it also made her less endearing; most novels can't pull it off successfully as in Gone with the Wind. Though it felt like that was what the author was attempting to do. Essentially, Angie does whatever it takes morality not withstanding.
What I liked about the book was the descriptions of Indian life both in a big city and small town. The author obviously has fond memories of her homeland and conveys the smell, taste and scenery exceptionally well. I have been to India and she captures the essence of the Indian culture with great clarity, hence, I gave the book 3 stars.
Ms. Mukherjee obviously knows the technical aspects of writing a novel (she teaches writing at UCF, Berkeley), this particular book will never go beyond a lazy day's read. The book has the feel of being written slap dash and I wonder if there was an impending contract deadline to meet. I wish she taken time to develop the characters and made the character's struggle more plausible.
Essentially, I felt like I was reading Big Business advertisement holding out hope for those trapped in the traditional female roles. The sad thing is this book has potential influence many young people, who wish to advance in a booming Indian economy; they will face challenges of getting a "big break". It concerns me that some young women may see this as a guide book to handling the bigger world awaiting them. Assuming strangers will be rescuing them when they face daunting odds. I pray, they don't seek to emulate Angie's behaviors to curry favor with powerful persons.
Also, I firmly believe that the story was written in such a way with an eye on being a potential Bollywood script. It definitely meets the thematic plot criteria. As such, they are often fast moving, feel good, song and dance stories that while not believable are lighthearted; and nearly always end with all troubles resolved and tied up neatly with a bow.
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