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Original Title: The Rice Mother
ISBN: 0142004545 (ISBN13: 9780142004548)
Edition Language: English
Setting: Malaysia
Literary Awards: Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in South East Asia and Pacific (2003), POPULAR-The Star Readers’ Choice Awards Nominee for Fiction (2011)
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The Rice Mother Paperback | Pages: 432 pages
Rating: 4.12 | 5424 Users | 533 Reviews

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Title:The Rice Mother
Author:Rani Manicka
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Deluxe Edition
Pages:Pages: 432 pages
Published:July 27th 2004 by Penguin Books (first published 2002)
Categories:Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. Asia. India

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Nothing in Lakshmi's childhood, running carefree and barefoot on the sun-baked earth amid the coconut and mango trees of Ceylon, could have prepared her for what life was to bring her. At fourteen, she finds herself traded in marriage to a stranger across the ocean in the fascinating land of Malaysia.

Duped into thinking her new husband is wealthy, she instead finds herself struggling to raise a family with a man too impractical to face reality and a world that is, by turns, unyielding and amazing, brutal and beautiful.

Giving birth to a child every year until she is nineteen, Lakshmi becomes a formidable matriarch, determined to wrest from the world a better life for her daughters and sons and to face every new challenge with almost mythic strength.

By sheer willpower Lakshmi survives the nightmare of World War II and the Japanese occupation -- but not unscathed. The family bears deep scars on its back and in turn inflicts those wounds on the next generation. But it is not until Lakshmi's great-granddaughter, Nisha, pieces together the mosaic of her family history that the legacy of the Rice Mother bears fruit.

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The Rice Mother is a strong and powerful work that takes readers into the lives of people of diaspora in Malaya, their cultures, customs, religion, culinary delights, all interwoven with their lives and fate during the course of the last century. Filled with characters and events, Rani Manickas debut novel is indicative of the start of a successful writing career. It is a story with a lot of sadness, but it keeps the attention of the reader until the very end. It is a tale of choices that

I loved this book. The way the story is told is really fantastic!The main character, Lakshmi, is not the only one who narrates the events.We have the opportunity to read some parts of the story narrated by various members of the family and it's amazing to see how Rani Manicka maintained the consistency of the plot from beginning to end!I found this way of writting really cool and unique because not all characters had the same perspective of some of the events.There are attitudes from some

IF I was talented enough to be a writer, this is exactly how I would write my stories. Her writing is so magical it felt like a fairytale ... only it wasnt, the culture and traditions in Malaysia were rather harsh and far from a fairytale. The child in me read each line wide-eyed and anxious about the princess hidden in the castle and the evil dragons with black eyes who sought to find her. The woman in me read each line in complete anguish as I was able to put myself in the shoes of every

Lovely novel - I love to travel through my books... When I don't have enough money to buy a ticket to a far away place, or when the times I wish to visit have already passed a long time ago, I open a book and read. This book took me to Malaysia, into the lives of three generations of women who struggle to make ends meet and raise their families. A beautiful story about love and war, mango trees and spiced rice.

After two full days, I finally finished reading Rani Manicka's debut novel, The Rice Mother. So intense is the storyline, I found myself clenching my fist and gritting my teeth from time to time as I breathed in the wonderful storytelling. Love, betrayal, anger, sorrow, hope, denial, happiness, longing, despair, deceit, infedility, honesty, pain and a thousand other emotions are spun and woven beautifully in this 580 page work of art, spanning a period of 85 years over 4 generations. It's been a

This book was up and down for me almost the entire time, sometimes within the same page. I think it could have used a better editor, perhaps, to hone in on the heart of the story and trim off the distractions flapping 'round the edges.My main problem, which might not be entirely fair, is that this read like a poor rendition of The Poisonwood Bible, in terms of theme and the devices used to tell the story. It was a multiple narrator novel, with the narrator's name as the chapter title. The

I think this must be, for me, the Malaysian equivalent of A Thousand Splendid Suns. A dense, poetic, evocative, sensual, lush, decadent story. This was a heavy read at times, with much savagery and tragedy within, but Manicka drew me wholly into the intoxicating world of Malaysia.This debut novel was an addictive page turner for the parts which deal with Lakshmi's forced marriage and the births of her 6 children, and then the Japanese occupation of Malaysia during World War Two. Selfishly, I