A kitchen in the corner of the house by Ambai, 1944- author, Holmstrom, Lakshmi, translator instant download

A kitchen in the corner of the house by Ambai, 1944- author, Holmstrom, Lakshmi, translator instant download

363 pages ; 17 cm, \"In A Kitchen in the Corner of the House, Ambai's narrators are daring and courageous, stretching and reinventing their homes, marriages, and worlds. With each story, her expansive voice confronts the construction of gender in Tamil literature. Piecing together letters, journal entries, and notes, Ambai weaves themes of both self-liberation and confinement into her writing. Her transfixing stories often meditate on motherhood, sexuality, and the liberating, and at times inhibiting, contours of the body.\"--Amazon.com, In a forest, a deer -- Once again -- A kitchen in the corner of the house -- Journey 4 -- My mother, her crime -- Forest -- Wrestling -- A rat, a sparrow -- River -- Trisanku -- Journey 3 -- Parasakti and others in a plastic box -- Wheelchair -- A thousand words, one life -- The calf that frolicked in the hall -- Journey 1 -- A movement, a folder, some tears -- Some deaths -- A fable -- Fish in a dwindling lake -- Yellow fish