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Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. Set against the backdrop of the ancient walled city of hyderabad and mounting hindumuslim tensions, madras on rainy days lyrically evokes the complexities of life behind the chador. Reading it, we are compelled to take note of the ways we stifle our true possibilities in order to survive in a hostile world. Celebration and disillusionment in contemporary india. This time, its a south indian speciality offering delicacies from down south and being completely vegetarian in the process. Layla is torn between clashing identities the dutiful muslim. Kansas citys community independent bookseller since 1975. Today is madras day, an annual festival that commemorates the founding of the city of madras now chennai in tamil nadu.
First published in paperback by unm press in 1976, the way to rainy mountain has sold over 200,000 copies. I would go to school there and all the kids would point and say, hey, look, the indian girl is back. When she is nineteen, her parents inform layla that a marriage has been arranged for her to an indian man she doesnt know. Set against the backdrop of the ancient walled city of hyderabad and mounting hindumuslim tensions, madras on rainy days lyrically evokes the complexities of life behind.
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Madras on rainy days is about the freedom to create ones own destiny. Madras is the pivotal moment in the story, a turning point which is what the lead character remembers it by her life changing experience in india. It was the authors debut novel, winning the penhemingway foundation award in 2005. Reading the book blurbsummary you will never guess the different layers explored in the story. Unfortunately, layla has already become pregnant by an american. In light of the seductiveness and whimsy of recent indian literature published in the past several years this book is a good addition to the bunch. It is a novel written by samina ali and published in 2004. Madras on rainy days by samina ali paperback, 309 pages picador list price. Rainy day books independent bookstore rainy day books is a fullline, fullservice independent bookstore. Paula mclain, the new york times bestselling author of the paris wife and circling the sun will present her new hardcover novel love and ruin, and discuss her lifes work.
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