Rice Mother

Name: Rice Mother
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ISBN: 9780142004548

ISBN-10: 0142004545

ISBN-13: 9780142004548

Edition: N/A

Authors: Rani Manicka

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At the age of fourteen, Lakshmi leaves behind her childhood among the mango trees of Ceylon for married life across the ocean in Malaysia, and soon finds herself struggling to raise a family in a country that is, by turns, unyielding and amazing, brutal and beautiful. Giving birth to a child every year until she is nineteen, Lakshmi becomes a formidable matriarch, determined to secure a better life for her daughters and sons. From the Japanese occupation during World War II to the torture of watching some of her children succumb to lifes most terrible temptations, she rises to face every new challenge with almost mythic strength. Dreamy and lyrical, told in the alternating voices of the men…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/27/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 5.05" wide x 7.68" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Rani Manicka was born and educated in Malaysia. An economics graduate, she now divides her time between Malaysia and the UK. Her first novel, The Rice Mother, won the South East Asia and South Pacific Region 2003 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, has been translated into 22 languages, and gained international acclaim.Nationality: Malaysian