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  The Rice Mother (Paperback) By (author) Rani Manicka

  

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  Short Description for The Rice MotherA compelling glimpse into a captivatingly exotic world of myth and magic
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  • Publisher: Hodder Paperback
  • Published: 13 May 2010
  • Format: Paperback 608 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9781444706581 ISBN 10: 1444706586
  • Sales rank: 81,425

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• A compelling glimpse into a captivatingly exotic world of myth and magic. Beguiled by promises of wealth, fourteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her native Ceylon for Malaya and marriage to a man many years her senior. But Ayah has lied to her and her family about his circumstances and in fact he lives in poverty. A woman of formidable energy and intelligence, Lakshmi provides security, if not luxury, for her family, though at a considerable emotional cost. Then the Japanese army invades during WWII. On the eve of peace, her beloved eldest daughter is raped and killed by the occupying army. The family bears deep scars and inflicts those wounds on the next generation. But in Nisha, Lakshmi's great-granddaughter, it is as if Fate has come full circle and the novel ends on a note of reconciliation and hope.