by Rani Manicka · Sceptre · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780340826072
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«The Rice Mother» is Rani Manicka's novel published in 2003 by Sceptre in paperback (592 pages, in English).
Lakshmi is fourteen when she leaves Ceylon to marry in Malaysia a man who is not what he seemed. Becoming a matriarch, she sustains her family through the Second World War and the Japanese occupation. The novel follows several generations and shows how the wounds of the past weigh on the descendants.
«The Rice Mother» is Rani Manicka's first novel and won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2003 in the category of best first book from Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
For readers of historical fiction and family sagas set in Asia, with elements of magical realism; also works for reading groups.
Rani Manicka is a Malaysian-born novelist, who divides her time between Malaysia and the United Kingdom.
