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基本信息·出版社：Penguin (Non-Classics)
·页码：448 页
·出版日期：2004年07月
·ISBN：0142004545
·International Standard Book Number：0142004545
·条形码：9780142004548
·EAN：9780142004548
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
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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 life??s 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 and women of this amazing family,
The Rice Mother gorgeously evokes a world where small pleasures offset unimaginable horrors, where ghosts and gods walk hand in hand. It marks the triumphant debut of a writer whose wisdom and soaring prose will touch readers, especially women, the world over.
作者简介 Rani Manicka was born and educated in Malaysia. The Rice Mother is her first novel.
媒体推荐 Exotic, sensual, sometimes sentimental, often searing, and ultimately universal... Read this one slowly, to savor. --
Kirkus Reviews 编辑推荐 Exotic, sensual, sometimes sentimental, often searing, and ultimately universal... Read this one slowly, to savor. (
Kirkus Reviews) A first novel of Eastern exoticism, myth and magic, and unforgettable characters, living and dead... You??ll be hard-pushed to find a more powerful, moving read this year. (
Glamour, UK)
