The Immigrant

Plot

Nina is a thirty year old English lecturer, struggling to make ends meet forherself and her widowed mother. She sees herself as increasingly off the shelf-after allwhat prospects would an impoverished girl have without a father to marry her off? Then,unexpectedly, a proposal arrives. Ananda is a dentist in Halifax, Canada. He has spenthis twenties painstakingly building his career, and has had no time to get married. Thetwo start to write to each other, then talk on the phone, and finally Ananda arrives in NewDelhi to propose. At first uncertain, Nina eventually agrees. When the two marry, sheleaves her home and her country to build a new life with her husband. But there is alwaysmore to marriage than courtship. And as Nina discovers truths about her husband - bothsexual and emotional - her fragile new life in Canada begins to unravel.No one writes about middle class family life with the nuance and tenderness of ManjuKapur. The Immigrant is another mesmerizing saga from this most beloved of novelists.