The style is involving and each life account is poignant....
Like a ragpicker with an eagle eye, she [Nair] observes the ordinary lives of maidservants, masseurs. vendors, and other women who course through daily life. It is the strength and resilience of the everyday woman that Nair brings out…Nair’s women are...
Anita Nair’s second novel upholds the promise of the first…Each of the women are finely drawn [as are their men], each caught in a net of relationships partly of her own making and partly one that is ‘made’for her….Anita Nair’s low...
The story of a woman’s search for strength and independence, Ladies Coupe focuses on the inner strength every human being possesses. The Asian...
…A brilliant evocation of sisterhood on the move…Nair’s tale is light enough to relieve the tedium of a long journey and yet filled with the incantatory power to burn up tracks, to seek a new destination. To change. India...
Evokes experience that are drawn from everyday life and across the social strata…suddenly it seemed to us their lives have attained epic dimensions. All this with insightful prose devoid of cluck-clucking or an impressionistic top-angle look at the plight of...
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