Geburtsdatum | Samstag, 27. Juli 1940 |
Geburtsort | Calcutta, Bengal Province, British India |
Todesort | Manhattan |
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Beschreibung | Bharati Mukherjee (27. Juli 1940 - 28. Januar 2017) war eine indisch-amerikanisch-kanadische Schriftstellerin und emeritierte Professorin für Englisch an der University of California, Berkeley. Sie war Autorin einer Reihe von Romanen und Kurzgeschichtensammlungen sowie von Sachbüchern. |
I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never handled money. You know, there was always a couple of bodyguards behind me, who took care if I wanted... I needed pencils for school, I needed a notebook, they were the ones who were taking out the money. I was constantly guarded.
As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.
