Evening Is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan

Evening Is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan

A magical, exuberant tragic-comic vision of post-colonial Malaysia reminiscent of Rushdie and Roy. In prose of acrobatic grace, Samarasan conjures a vibrant portrait, by turns intimate and sweeping, of characters and a country coming of age. The debut of a significant, and thrilling new talent. Peter Ho Davies

"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 itselfOften funny, sometimes sad, never predictable, this is a novel that announces a unique talent." Tash Aw

"A wonderfully engaging novel, poignant yet comical, about the contradictions and hazards inherent in a modern, postcolonial world." M.G. Vassanji, author of The In-Between World of Vikram Lall

"Preeta Samarasan's passionate, striking book, stunned with light and heat, is full of the memory of enchantment and the enchantment of memory. Samarasan cultivates with brilliance the taut battle between the public and familial being, and the hidden and fragile inner self, trapped in a world of myth and mystery." Susanna Moore

‘An accomplished and magical debut.' New Books Magazine

Preeta Samarasan was born and raised in Malaysia and moved to the United States for her high school education. She received her MFA from the University of Michigan, where an early version of this novel won the Hopwood Novel Award. She recently won the Asian American Writer’s Workshop short-story award. She lives in France.

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ISBN 13	9780007271887
ISBN 10	0007271883
Title	Evening Is the Whole Day
Author	Preeta Samarasan
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2008-06-02
Number of pages	352
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