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‘A literary heavyweight’-Indian Express
In these bold, wry and ebullient stories, Meera’s astonishing range of narrative techniques is on full display as she expertly lays bare the faultlines behind the façade of everyday life, sometimes with dark humour and sometimes with astoundingly bitter sadness.
Imprint: India Penguin
Published: Jun/2016
ISBN: 9780143068471
Length : 236 Pages
MRP : ₹299.00
Imprint: Penguin Audio
Published:
ISBN:
Imprint: India Penguin
Published: Jun/2016
ISBN: 9788184755947
Length : 236 Pages
MRP : ₹299.00
‘A literary heavyweight’-Indian Express
In these bold, wry and ebullient stories, Meera’s astonishing range of narrative techniques is on full display as she expertly lays bare the faultlines behind the façade of everyday life, sometimes with dark humour and sometimes with astoundingly bitter sadness.
K.R. Meera, an independent journalist and writer, made her mark in Malayalam journalism when she won the PUCL Human Rights National Award for Journalism in 1998 for an investigative series on the plight of women labourers in Kerala. She started writing fiction in 2001 and her first short story collection Ormayude Njarambu was published in 2002. Since then she has published four collections of short stories, a novella and three novels. Meera is one of the most widely read authors of her generation in malayalam and has won many prestigious literary prizes.