Shilpi Somaya Gowda Boeken

Somer's life is everything she imagined it would be — she's newly married and has started her career as a physician in San Francisco — until she makes the devastating discovery she never will be able to have children. The same year in India, a poor mother makes the heartbreaking choice to save her newborn daughter's life by giving her away. It is a decision that will haunt Kavita for the rest of her life, and cause a ripple effect that travels across the world and back again. Asha, adopted out of a Mumbai orphanage, is the child that binds the destinies of these two women. We follow both families, invisibly connected until Asha's journey of self-discovery leads her back to India. Compulsively readable and deeply touching, SECRET DAUGHTER is a story of the unforeseen ways in which our choices and families affect our lives, and the indelible power of love in all its many forms.

A novel exploring the ties and fractures of a close-knit, Indian-American family in the aftermath of a violent encounter with the police

From the international bestselling author of Secret Daughter and The Golden Son comes a poignant, unforgettable novel about a family's growing apart and coming back together in the wake of tragedy. A profoundly moving exploration of the ways we all seek belonging.

Anil est un jeune Indien qui commence des études de médecine dans le Gujarat puis part faire son internat aux Etats-Unis. Sa redoutable mère rêve pour lui d'une union prestigieuse. Or, depuis qu'il est petit, elle le sait très proche de Leena, la fille d'un métayer pauvre. Quand celle-ci devient une très belle jeune fille, il faut l'éloigner, en la mariant au plus vite. Les destins croisés d'Anil et de Leena forment la trame de ce roman, lui en Amérique, qui est loin d'être le paradis dont il rêvait ; et elle en Inde, où sa vie sera celle de millions de femmes victimes de mariages arrangés. Ils se reverront un jour, chacun prêt à prendre sa vie en main. Mais auront-ils droit au bonheur ?