Daughters of Kerala is a wonderful collection of 25 short stories spanning a period of 7 decades by award-winning Malayalam authors translated into English.
Kerala, one of the smallest states in India, is located in the country's southwest corner. Known for its great beauty, religious diversity, and zero population growth, the region also boasts an exceptionally high literacy rate -- reportedly above 95 percent -- resulting in a large readership for books, journals, and newspapers. The quality of Kerala's literary production is very high, and this anthology represents some of its best short stories.
Though educated and enterprising, women from this area face the same problems as women the world over. The stories in this collection explore their lives, giving readers everywhere a greater understanding of what it means to be a daughter of Kerala.
The work is a notable endeavor by the translator to make a linguistically isolated literary tradition better known to the English reader.
“Daughters of Kerala” provides a very representative selection of Malayalam short stories over a period of seventy years, while having the advantage of being thematically oriented. The excellent translation conveys the spirit and quality of the original stories and shows the benefit to the translator of being fully bilingual in both source and target languages."
R.E. Asher, Emeritus
Professor of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh"
Visit www.achammachander.com for more details.
Kerala, one of the smallest states in India, is located in the country's southwest corner. Known for its great beauty, religious diversity, and zero population growth, the region also boasts an exceptionally high literacy rate -- reportedly above 95 percent -- resulting in a large readership for books, journals, and newspapers. The quality of Kerala's literary production is very high, and this anthology represents some of its best short stories.
Though educated and enterprising, women from this area face the same problems as women the world over. The stories in this collection explore their lives, giving readers everywhere a greater understanding of what it means to be a daughter of Kerala.
The work is a notable endeavor by the translator to make a linguistically isolated literary tradition better known to the English reader.
“Daughters of Kerala” provides a very representative selection of Malayalam short stories over a period of seventy years, while having the advantage of being thematically oriented. The excellent translation conveys the spirit and quality of the original stories and shows the benefit to the translator of being fully bilingual in both source and target languages."
R.E. Asher, Emeritus
Professor of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh"
Visit www.achammachander.com for more details.
