YALPANAM

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  • Pub Date : April 2022
  • Author : Shivani Sivagurunathan
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Category : Fiction
  • Binding Type : Trade Paperback
  • NO. OF PAGES : 264
  • Mrp : 499

ABOUT THE BOOK

‘Yalpanam’, an old colonial house on Coal Island in Malaysia, is swarming with
ghosts. Its inhabitant, one hundred- and eighty-five-year-old recluse,
Pushpanayagi, has been avoiding them for decades. But that is about to
change. When eighteen-year-old neighbour Maxim Cheah, disgruntled at
home, arrives on an apparent whim at ‘Yalpanam’, they begin an unlikely
friendship that will rock Maxim’s world, and send Pushpanayagi whirling
through space-time, back to 19th century and 1940s Malaya. Will the ghosts of
the old lady’s past-a rigid British lepidopterist, his melancholic first wife, his
deceptively vibrant second wife, their opium-addicted servant-release her?
What will Maxim discover from her friendship with her enigmatic neighbor?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Shivani Sivagurunathan has been writing and publishing fiction and poetry for twenty years. Her writing has always been grounded in a Malaysian context and supported by a metaphysical foundation-- it combines the local and the concrete with the universal and the abstract, reminiscent of the South American magical realist writers like Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa. Her short stories and poems have appeared in numerous international journals and magazines including 'Cha: An Asian Literary Magazine', 'Agenda', 'Construction Literary Magazine' and many others.

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