Evening Is the Whole Day - Hardcover

Samarasan, Preeta

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 061887447X ISBN 13: 9780618874477

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008

Synopsis

The life of six-year-old Aasha Rajasekharan and those of her prosperous family are turned upside down by the death of her grandmother, the dismissal of the family's rubber plantation servant girl, and the departure of her older sister, Uma, for Columbia University, in the saga of one Malaysian Indian immigrant family's secrets and lies. A first novel.

About this title

Review:

'Preeta Samarasan details the colourful and secretive lives of the Rajeskhrans, a wealthy Indian immigrant family.' -- Image Magazine

`A richly complex debut, weaving the troubled Malaysia of the 1980s with a dark, delicious Dickensian family drama.'
-- Waterstones Books Quarterly

`Vibrant, descriptive, and peppered with colourful Indian-Malaysian dialogue...an epic that's informative without being worthy, and engrossing but not frivolous.' -- The Observer

`You won't find India's heat and dust here; you will sense the moist warmth of South-east Asia.' -- Independent

About the Author:

Preeta Samarasan was born and raised in Malaysia, but moved to the United States in high-school. She received her M.F.A. from the University of Michigan, where an early version of this novel received the Hopwood Novel Award; she also recently won the Asian American Writer’s Workshop/Hyphen Magazine short-story award. She currently lives in central France with her husband and dog.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 061887447X
• ISBN 13: 9780618874477
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 340