Fragile Monsters

Fragile Monsters
Catherine Menon
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 256pg
7 Apr 2022 UK
International import eta 10-19 days
9780241988978
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On a visit to her childhood home in rural Malaysia, Durga faces a reckoning. Stuck with her sharp-tongued grandmother in the rising heat, both women must untangle the truth from the myth of their family' s past. What happened to Durga' s mother after she gave birth? Why did so many of their family members disappear during the war? And who is to blame for the childhood tragedy that haunts Durga? Fragile Monsters traces one family' s story from 1920 to the present day, unravelling a thrilling tale of love, betrayal and redemption against the backdrop of natural disasters and fallen empires. Written in vivid technicolour, with an electric daughter-grandmother relationship at its heart, this is a stunning debut novel about what happens when secrets fester through the generations.
Supple, artful, skilful storytelling - it takes an immediate grip on the reader' s imagination and doesn' t let go * Hilary Mantel * A brilliant novel about homecoming and the layered, unstable past that haunts and hurts . . . I admire it enormously * Colm Toibin *
Catherine Menon has Malaysian heritage and lives in London. She is a University lecturer in robotics and holds an MA in Creative Writing. Fragile Monsters is her first book.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780241988978
Published: 7 Apr 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Books
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 30mm
Weight: 350g
Pages: 256

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