by Anita Nair · Editions Philippe Picquier · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782877306751
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«Un homme meilleur» is the novel by Anita Nair, published by Editions Philippe Picquier in paperback (430 pages, in French).
Mukundan, now retired, returns to the Kerala village where he was born to settle in the family home. There he lives with an elderly, tyrannical father and the memory of his mother; among old friends and neighbours like Meenakshi, Ramakrishnan, Kamban and Bhasi, he tries to reconcile with his past.
The original title is The Better Man. The French translation, by Marielle Morin, is from the English (India). The French edition was published in 2003.
For those seeking contemporary Indian literature: a vivid portrait of rural South India and a story of personal redemption.
Anita Nair is an Indian novelist who writes her books in English. She is best known for her novels A Better Man, Mistress, and Lessons in Forgetting. She has also written poetry, essays, short stories, crime fiction, historical fiction, romance, and children's literature, including Muezza and Baby Jaan: Stories from the Quran.
