Lakshmi Holmström (Book order)

Lakshmi Holmström Book order

Lakshmi Holmström was an Indian-British writer, literary critic, and translator dedicated to bringing contemporary Tamil authors to a wider audience. Her work focused on translating short stories and novels, illuminating the unique voices and themes of Tamil literature for English-speaking readers. Holmström's critical insights offered a profound understanding of the literary landscape. Through her translation efforts and her founding of SALIDAA, she significantly contributed to the preservation and dissemination of diasporic South Asian literary heritage.

A Kitchen In The Corner Of The House

376 pages
14 hours of reading

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A Kitchen in the Corner of the House collects twenty-five gem-like stories on motherhood, sexuality, and the body from the innovative and perceptive Tamil writer Ambai. 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.

A Kitchen In The Corner Of The House

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