by Rani Manicka · DEBOLSILLO · tapa dura · ISBN 9788497934879
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«Madre del arroz» is the family novel by Rani Manicka, published by Debolsillo in 2004, in hardback (640 pages, in Spanish).
The story begins in 1926: Lakshmi arrives from Ceylon to Malaysia at fourteen to marry a supposed wealthy merchant and ends up supporting her family during the Japanese occupation. Narrated by several clan members, it weaves love, betrayal, myths and superstitions. Her great-granddaughter Nisha tries to piece together the secrets of four generations of women.
Original title: The Rice Mother (2002). This edition is no. 598 of the Best Seller collection and won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2003 for best first work from Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
For readers of family sagas and contemporary fiction, and for reading clubs interested in choral stories with a historical backdrop in Malaysia.
Rani Manicka is a Malaysian-born novelist, who divides her time between Malaysia and the United Kingdom.
