{"product_id":"inside-the-mirror","title":"Inside the Mirror","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eInside the Mirror\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eParul Kapur\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781496236784\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eUniversity of Nebraska Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2024\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the AWP Prize for the Novel \u003cbr\u003e Ms. Magazine's Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2024\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Winner 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\/body\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Inside the Mirror | Parul Kapur | Paperback | 9781496236784 | New | Fiction 1592499","offer_id":50645569011970,"sku":"1592499","price":47.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/91vqeubM36L.jpg?v=1791259787","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/inside-the-mirror","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}