Jasmine

By: Bharati Mukherjee

Narrated by: Farah Bala

When Jasmine is suddenly widowed at 17, she seems fated to a life of quiet isolation in the small Indian village where she was born. But the force of Jasmine's desires propels her explosively into a larger, more dangerous, and ultimately more life-giving world. In just a few years, Jasmine becomes Jane Ripplemeyer, happily pregnant by a middle-aged Iowa banker and the adoptive mother of a Vietnamese refugee.

Jasmine's metamorphosis, with its shocking upheavals and its slow evolutionary steps, illuminates the making of an American mind; but even more powerfully, her story depicts the shifting contours of an America being transformed by her and others like her - our new neighbors, friends, and lovers. In Jasmine, Bharati Mukherjee has created a heroine as exotic and unexpected as the many worlds in which she lives.

©1989 Bharati Mukherjee (P)2011 Audible, Inc.

Critic reviews

"Mukherjee has eloquently succeeded in creating a kind of impressionistic fable, a prose-poem, about being an exile, a refugee, a spiritual vagabond in the world today." (The New York Times)

"A beautiful novel, poetic, exotic, perfectly controlled." (San Francisco Chronicle)

compelling

wonderful perspective shift that added to my world a little more! hated the ending though.

amazing book, great presentation!

The last chapter is in this book is phenomally performed by Bala! of course, the entirety of the book is great, though the last chapter stays with you.

great book

loved it great story & awesome ending. I liked the back & forth of the story between the places she lived at.

Her struggles

It was a good story I would not have read it on my own, but I got assigned it for a class. It is a good book and I enjoyed hearing her story and all the struggles she went through and she overcame.

Great book to put you to sleep

I did not enjoy this at all. I listened to it when I wanted to sleep. Now I know why it was only $2.