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Preeta Samarasan
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Batu Gajah, Malaysia
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Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, Salman Rushdie, William Faulkner, Gra...more
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Evening Is the Whole Day
— published 2008 — 16 editions |
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Aften hele dagen
— published 2008 |
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KL NOIR: Red
by Amir Muhammad , Adib Zaini (Goodreads Author), Khairulnizam Bakeri (Goodreads Author) — published 2013 |
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"I took a long break between the first and the second too, and found myself having to reread the first alongside the second. I do love Elizabeth Bowen....more
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I do not understand why anyone would want to climb a freezing cold mountain. Sounds like hell on earth to me. This book didn't make that desire any clearer to me, but it was a fascinating chronicle of a bunch of people banding together to be reall...
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"Yay, you read this! I always fret that Real Poets will be disappointed by my poetry recommendations, but I found this smart and fun and moving. He has...more
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"Rob and I were totally blown away by this, as was Anne when she read it -- we'll have to discuss it when you're done!
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"Oof, I hated this book -- read it in high school for a class -- but I hated Almanac of The Dead (which I read in grad school for another class) even m...more
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| Well, I read this slowly, like Michael said (I read everything slowly anyway), but I'm still not sure about it. The opening is absolutely one of the most brilliant passages of writing I've ever read, and there was no way I was not reading this book a...more | |
“The sun goes down and the sky reddens, pain grows sharp,
light dwindles. Then is evening
when jasmine flowers open, the deluded say.
But evening is the great brightening dawn
when crested cocks crow all through the tall city
and evening is the whole day
for those without their lovers.”
― Preeta Samarasan
light dwindles. Then is evening
when jasmine flowers open, the deluded say.
But evening is the great brightening dawn
when crested cocks crow all through the tall city
and evening is the whole day
for those without their lovers.”
― Preeta Samarasan
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