The Rice Mother - Softcover

Manicka, Rani

 
9780340823835: The Rice Mother
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0340823836 ISBN 13: 9780340823835
Verlag: Sceptre, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

Beguiled by promises of wealth, fourteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her native Ceylon for Malaysia and marriage to a man many years her senior. But Ayah has lied to her and her family about his circumstances and in fact lives in poverty. A woman of formidable energy and intelligence, Lakshmi provides security, if not luxury, for her family, though at a considerable emotional cost. Then the Japanese army invades during WWII. On the eve of peace, her beloved eldest daughter is raped and killed by the occupying army. The family bears deep scars and inflicts those wounds on the next generation. But in Nisha, Lakshmi's great-granddaughter, it is as if Fate has come full circle and the novel ends on a note of reconciliation and hope.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Rani Manicka was born and educated in Malaysia. An economics graduate, she now divides her time between Malaysia and the UK. Her first novel, The Rice Mother, won the South East Asia and South Pacific Region 2003 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, has been translated into 22 languages, and gained international acclaim. Nationality: Malaysian

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Verlag
Sceptre
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0340823836
ISBN 13 
9780340823835
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
592
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