Evening is the Whole Day

Name: Evening is the Whole Day
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ISBN: 9780732287528

Preeta Samarasan

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Fourth Estate
01 July 2008

Fiction & Literature; Sagas

Stunning debut from an enormously talented young writer with an entirely original voice. This masterful novel transports us to Malaysia circa 1980, as the prosperous Rajasekharan family of Big House, Ipoh, slowly peels away its closely guarded secrets....

Set in Malaysia, this spellbinding first novel introduces us to the prosperous Rajasekharan family as it slowly peels away its closely guarded secrets. When the family's rubber-plantation servant girl is dismissed for unnamed crimes, it is only the latest in a series of precipitous losses that have shaken six-year-old Aasha's life. In the space of several weeks her grandmother died under mysterious circumstances and her older sister, Uma, left for Columbia University, gone forever. Circling through years of family history to arrive at the moment of Uma's departure - stranding her worshipful younger sister in a family, and a country, slowly going to pieces - Evening is the Whole Day illuminates in heartbreaking detail one Indian immigrant family's layers of secrets and lies, while exposing the complex underbelly of Malaysia itself. Sweeping in scope, exuberantly lyrical, and masterfully constructed, Preeta Samarasan's debut is a mesmerising and vital achievement. 'Rich, quirky and colourful, Evening is the Whole Day captures not just the sense of a family struggling to deal with its past, but the crazy uncertainty of a country coming to terms with itself' - tash Aw 'a surpassingly wise and beautiful debut novel about the tragic consequences of the inability to love' - Booklist

By: Preeta Samarasan
Imprint: Fourth Estate
Country of Publication: Australia
Edition: First novel by this author
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 643g
ISBN: 9780732287528
ISBN 10: 0732287529
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 01 July 2008
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active