Sawnet - Bookshelf - Kavita Daswani
Kavita Daswani has been a fashion correspondent for CNN, CNBC Asia, and Women's Wear Daily, has written for the Los Angeles Times and the International Herald Tribune, among many other publications, and has been the fashion editor for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong.
- About Kavita Daswani
- Few men did not like me because I was dark. Rediff interview.
Bibliography
- Salaam, Paris
Plume, June 2006
- Tanaya Shah longs for the wonderful world of Paris, the world that she fell in love with while watching Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina—so when a proposal comes along for an arranged marriage with a man who is living in Paris, Tanaya seizes the chance. But once she lands in the city, she shuns the match. A stroke of luck turns Tanaya into a supermodel, and soon the traditional girl is cavorting with rock stars and is disowned by her family.
In her new whirlwind life, she is reintroduced to the man she was supposed to marry, the man she now realizes she should have never walked away from, the man who is her only connection to the family she longs to reconcile with, if only it’s not too late.
- Sawnet Review by Reeta Sinha
- The Village Bride of Beverly Hills
Putnam Publishing, 2004.
- After an arranged marriage in her native India, Priya moves with her husband to California, where they share a house with his parents. Playing the traditional daughter-in-law role, she's expected to clean, cook, and-because she doesn't immediately get pregnant-find a job as well! But the job Priya lands isn't at all what her in-laws had in mind for a traditional Indian wife. She soon finds herself with a secret life that she must hide from her disapproving new family. All the while, she is growing into a marriage to a man whose loyalty is decidedly torn between his parents and his bride. This is hardly surprising, given that he met his wife only a week before their wedding. The question is, can this fragile new love survive the pull between tradition and ambition?
- Review from desijournal
- For Matrimonial Purposes
Penguin Putnam, 2003.
- Unmarried at twenty-four-and with no prospects in sight-Anju is a great
source of worry to her family. Despite the best efforts of relatives,
fortune-tellers, and matchmakers to arrange a marriage, she can?t seem to
find a husband-or at least one she?s willing to marry. Quickly becoming a
spinster by her culture?s standards, she is eager to escape the community
that views her as a failure, and to seek her prospects in America. After
major success as a print journalist and fashion correspondent on
national television, Kavita Daswani makes her sparkling debut as a novelist with
this hilarious and heartwarming tale of a young woman?s travels between
the strict customs of India and the wild freedoms of America, proving that
while the search for love takes many forms, the heartbreak and
exhilaration are universal.
- Sawnet Review by Reeta Sinha
- Review by Bonnie Zare in desijournal.com
- Review by Poornima Apte in desijournal.com
- Review at lokvani.com by Michelle Reale.
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