Yalpanam
A Novel
$37.73
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
14 September 2021
Summary
A socio-spiritual story about the search for wholeness set in present-day Malaysia with time-travelling journeys into the past.
One hundred and eighty-five year old recluse, Pushpanayagi, is on the brink of a transformation. Her past, long forgotten, long avoided, is catching up. When eighteen year old Maxim Cheah, disgruntled at home, aching for freedom, for answers about her life, arrives on an apparent whim at Yalpanam—the old lady’s house—they begin an unlikely friendship that wil…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9789814914116 |
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| ISBN-10: | 9814914118 |
| Author: | Shivani Sivagurunathan |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House SEA |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House SEA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 14 September 2021 |
| Weight: | 294g |
| Dimensions: | 215mm x 135mm x 16mm |
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About The Author
Shivani Sivagurunathan
In her first book, Wildlife on Coal Island, she created a fictional island as a means to explore the Malaysian context in ways that a non-fiction setting could not. The Indian writer Tabish Khair described the book as ‘R.K. Narayan’s Malgudi, turned into an island, meets Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book in this highly readable collection of stories by a new and distinctive voice from Malaysia’. It was republished by HarperCollins India in 2012.
Her short stories and poems have appeared in numerous international journals and magazines including Cha- An Asian Literary Magazine, Agenda, Construction Literary Magazine and many others.
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