The Happiness of Kati - Hardcover

Vejjajiva, Jane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1416917888 ISBN 13: 9781416917885

Publisher: Atheneum, 2006

Synopsis

When the mother she hasn't seen in five years is stricken with Lou Gehrig's disease, nine-year-old Kati travels to the house by the sea to spend the last weeks of her mother's life with her, in this touching story of love, hope, and renewal set in Thailand.

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Review:

Takes in daily life in Thailand through tastes, sounds and smells.

An enchanting, atmospheric story. (Irish Examiner )

Beautifully written and simply expressed, poignant without being sentimental. (Carousel )

About the Author:

Jane Vejjajiva was born in 1963 in London. She returned to Thailand at the age of three. Having cerebral palsy from birth limits her movements and books opened to her an imaginary world. After completing a BA with Honours and further studies in translation, she started her career as a magazine publisher before setting up her own company editing a magazine for children in 1995. She now runs the Silkroad Publishers agency and continues to work as a freelance translator and interpreter. The Happiness of Kati is her first novel and was first published in Thailand in December 2003.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atheneum
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1416917888
• ISBN 13: 9781416917885
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144