Rice Mother, The

Rice Mother, The
Rani Manicka
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Paperback
h198 x 131mm - 608pg
13 May 2010 UK
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9781444706581
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Beguiled by promises of wealth, fourteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her native Ceylon for Malaya and marriage to a man many years her senior. But Ayah has lied to her and her family about his circumstances and in fact he 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.
It would be difficult not to be seduced by ... the intriguing mixture of myth, religion and superstition ... there is a freedom and freshness in the manner in which the author explores the interior life of her characters whose idiosyncrasies and many failings are sympathetically and sometimes humorously observed ... It possesses a genuine intimacy and passionate involvement. Elizabeth Buchan, Times Play You'll struggle to find a more powerful, moving read this year. Glamour Emotionally satisfying, complex books like this are harder to find. Heat I simply didn't want it to end ... The characters themselves, with their resolute individualism, ultimately seem larger than either the superbly drawn historical background or the novel's exotic setting Image Magazine A vivid storyteller ... Unfolding over four generations like a Greek tragedy, it's a compulsive and often harrowing tale. In Style Echoes of Memoirs of a Geisha in this exotic family saga Daily Mirror Powerful Sunday Mirror Drips with local colour ... wonderful. Daily Mail A vividly atmospheric novel of tragedy, superstition, belief and hope. Woman & Home Rich in domestic detail essential for a convincing family saga ... this novel transcends its genre ... she has created a novel with its own strong flavour. Times Play You'll love Rani Manicka's first novel. New Woman
Rani Manicka was born and educated in Malaysia. An economics graduate, she now lives in the UK. The Rice Mother is her first novel.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781444706581
Published: 13 May 2010
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Hodder Paperback
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 131mm
Pages: 608
Dewey: 823.92

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