# Jasmine

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/bharati-mukherjee/jasmine/9781853812781

JSON version (same data): https://www.bookquiver.com/bharati-mukherjee/jasmine/9781853812781.json

![Jasmine](https://quivercdn.com/covers/virago/bharati-mukherjee/jasmine_978-18-5381-278-1.jpg?v=2026-05-19%2005%3A13%3A57)

- Book: [Jasmine](https://www.bookquiver.com/bharati-mukherjee/jasmine) ([Jasmine.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/bharati-mukherjee/jasmine.md))
- Authors: [Bharati Mukherjee](https://www.bookquiver.com/bharati-mukherjee)
- Publisher: virago
- ISBN: 978-18-5381-278-1
- Published: 1991-05-16
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

When Jasmine Vijh is suddenly widowed at seventeen, she seems fated to a future of quiet isolation in a small Indian village. But, voracious for life, she flees to America. Six years on she has become Jane Ripplemeyer, resident of Iowa, married to a middle-aged banker and adoptive mother of a Vietnamese refugee. Jasmine's odyssey through America, rippling with energy and daring, reflects Mukherjee's preoccupation with the fractured lives of exiles and immigrants caught up in a painful yet exhilarating cross-cultural metamorphosis. In this uncompromising novel that draws on all the strengths of the award-winning The Middleman and Other Stories and carries them to a new level of perception and intensity, Bharati Mukherjee has given us a heroine's 'greedy with wants and reckless with hope' - and leaves us breathless with surprise.