Sufferings of Female Characters in Manju Kapur’s Novel Difficult Daughters

Abstract

Manuju kapur has presented an exciting account of women of the 1940s in her novel ‘difficult daughter’ generally the novel is one of the genres among different genres in literature and the events revolve around the backdrop of Indian Independent and women’s liberation. She is one of the greatest writers in saying about female’s sufferings. This great writer Manju Kapur was born on 1^st January, 1948 in Amritsar, India and she won commonwealth writer’s prize in 1999.She teaches English at Delhi University. She is a prominent novelist and has given a new direction to Indian Engl ish novels like other renowned female novelists Anita Desai, Kamala Markendeya Jhumba Lahari, Nayantara Sagal and Arundhathi Roy. Those writers have perceived the gender issues that disturb women and presented women as individuals who fight against suppression and oppression of the patriarchy and have highlighted the consequences of ebelling against their traditional roles and breaking the shackles.