Preeta Samarasan
Author
Language
English
Description
By the author of the international bestseller Evening Is The Whole Day, this novel set in Malaysia will appeal to readers of Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai
In what was once a Scottish tea planter's mansion in the highlands of Peninsular Malaysia, all religions are one and race is unheard of. That is, until the occupants of what is now known as the Muhibbah Centre for World Peace are joined by Salmah, a Malay Muslim woman. "All are welcome here,"...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Language
English
Description
The lives of six-year-old Aasha Rajasekharan and her prosperous family are turned upside down by the death of her grandmother and the departure of her older sister, Uma, for Columbia University, in a saga of one immigrant family's secrets and lies.