Click to play videoNew Delhi: If you have read Difficult Daughters and A Married Woman you already know author Manju Kapur's area of expertise - the Indian middle class family and woman protagonists. And Kapur's latest, The Immigrant, is no different in that respect.
It's the story of Delhi-based Nina, a 30-year-old unmarried professor trying to make ends meet. Life for Nina is nothing but a continuous struggle. But hope comes in the form of an arranged marriage with Ananda, an NRI based in Canada.
Nina is finally able to leave her colourless life, poverty and shabbyness behind to start a new life in Halifax with Ananda, only to discover her husband's sexual and emotional dysfunctions and struggles of a different nature.
The plot boasts of nothing novel or innovative, but its Manju Kapur's prose, the deftly chosen details, her description of emotions only too familiar, delving into the workings of her protagonist's mind.
The ripe melodrama lingers on and you are reminded of Nina everytime you are lonely and bored.
Manju Kapur's flowing prose makes The Immigrant a light read, a perfect choice when serious reading is not what you're looking at instead what you want is a good story told well and a cup of coffee.
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