My Mother Pattu
$29.00
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
5 September 2023
Summary
Finely textured, humane, and deeply relevant, these stories of love, loss, and the politics of identity, race, and belonging challenge comfortable conventions about ourselves. In turn wry and humorous, poignant and searing, they haunt our minds long after they are done.
Deeply humane, in turn wry and humorous, the stories in this collection haunt readers with their searing honesty.
- Lalitha, abused by her own mother, learns that bullies carry emotional traumas that scar e…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9789815058918 |
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| ISBN-10: | 9815058916 |
| Author: | Saras Manickam |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House SEA |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House SEA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 5 September 2023 |
| Weight: | 204g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 136mm x 11mm |
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About The Author
Saras Manickam
An award-winning writer, Saras Manickam’s story, ‘My Mother Pattu’ won the regional prize for Asia in the 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Contest. In 2021, it was included in the anthology, The Art and Craft of Asian Stories, published by Bloomsbury, and in 2022, it was published in The Best of Malaysian Short Fiction in English 2010- 2020. Saras Manickam worked as a teacher, teacher-trainer, copywriter, Business English trainer, copy-editor, and writer of textbooks, school workbooks and coffee-table books while writing short stories at night. Her various work experiences enabled insights into characters, and life experiences, shaping the authenticity which mark her stories. She also won the 2017 DK Dutt Award for her story, ‘Charan’. Some of her other stories have appeared in Silverfish and Readings into Readings anthologies, while one was shortlisted in the 2021 Masters Review Summer Short Story Award. She lives and works in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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