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Set in Malaysia, this spellbinding and already internationally acclaimed debut introduces us to the prosperous Rajasekharan family as its closely guarded secrets are slowly peeled away. When Chellam, the family’s rubber-plantation-bred servant girl, is dismissed for unnamed crimes, her... read more

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First Sentence

THERE IS, stretching delicate as a bird's head from the thin neck of the Kra Isthmus, a land that makes up half of the country called Malaysia.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Preeta Samarasan (Author)

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  1. asia
  2. fiction
  3. international women writer 
 

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