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Rani Manicka Ordre des livres

    1 janvier 1964

    Rani Manicka crée des récits vivants et imaginatifs qui explorent les faiblesses de la nature humaine et les conséquences de la guerre, souvent imprégnés d'histoires familiales riches. Ses récits captivants explorent les complexités de l'amour, de la trahison et de la dépendance, entraînant les lecteurs dans des histoires absorbantes de relations non conventionnelles sur fond de conflits historiques. La voix distinctive de Manicka et sa prose habile créent des expériences littéraires immersives qui résonnent avec une profondeur émotionnelle.

    Rani Manicka
    Touching earth
    The Rice Mother
    • 2004

      Touching earth

      3,4(9)Évaluer

      THE BALINESE TWINS - Beautiful and exotic, they exchange an island paradise for the shabby squalor of London, and innocence for corruption. THE SICILIAN- Ricky Delgado strikes a devil's bargain with a blood goddess: 'Build my temple and bring me the souls of damaged people, and you will see what rewards I give.' THE COURTESAN - Elizabeth makes her living from men's desire. With a flick of the switch in her head, she feels nothing: no pain, no hate, no sorrow, no joy. THE ARTIST - Anis takes to painting as an outlet for his rage. His artist's eye knows his subjects before they know themselves, and he paints them all, a gallery of broken people. Can they escape the deadly web of decadence and sin?

      Touching earth
    • 1999

      The Rice Mother

      4,2(95)Évaluer

      Beguiled by promises of wealth, fourteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her native Ceylon for Malaysia and marriage to a man many years her senior. But Ayah has lied to her and her family about his circumstances and in fact 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.

      The Rice Mother