Preeta Samarasan

Profile

Preeta Samarasan was born and raised in Malaysia and moved to the United States for her high school education. She recently received her MFA from the University of Michigan, where an early version of this novel won the Hopwood Novel Award. She recently won the Asian American Writer’s Workshop short-story award. She lives in France.

EVENING IS THE WHOLE DAY

A spellbinding, exuberant first novel, set in Malaysia, that introduces us to a prosperous Indian immigrant family, as it slowly peels away its closely guarded secrets.

Publication date: UK 28th May 2009

EVENING IS THE WHOLE DAY [ePub edition]

‘A magical, exuberant tragic-comic vision of post-colonial Malaysia reminiscent of Rushdie and Roy. In prose of acrobatic grace, Samarasan conjures a vibrant portrait, by turns intimate and sweeping, of characters and a country coming of age. The debut of a significant, and thrilling new talent.’ Peter Ho Davies

Publication date: UK 6th Mar 2009