The Star

Anita Nair writes fluid prose which smoothens the flow of the novel…spurs the reader to keep turning the pages…this book defies people’s expectations of an Indian writer The...

The Malay Mail

Nair has captured the pulse of life in the Kerala village of Kaikurussi…characters are drawn with empathy and loving detail The Malay...

New Strait Times

Nair’s prose is refreshingly direct…an assured debut novel New Strait...

Project Eyeball

Like a scintillating single from a new band, this novel sets Nair in the canon under ‘terribly promising’ and will be treasured… Project...

The Hindu Sunday Literary Review

…finely balanced debut…[that] successfully explores undercurrents that run beneath relationships even in an idyll rural setting. The Hindu Sunday Literary...

The Deccan Herald

A better novel was not published by Penguin in 1999. The Better Man takes one ‘s memories back to such African classics in English as Efuru by Flora Nwapa and Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe… A quiverful of characters who refuse to leave your memory even...