Preeta Samarasan


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Preeta Samarasan

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gender female
place of birth Batu Gajah, Malaysia
website http://www.preetasamarasan.com
genre Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction
influences Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, Salman Rushdie, William Faulkner, Graham Swift (especially _Waterland_), Peter Carey, Arundhati Roy

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Please see www.preetasamarasan.com for more about the book and a regularly updated schedule of events.

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Preeta Samarasan has attended a lot of schools, and you should contact her to say hello if you knew her at any of them:

In Ipoh, Malaysia:
The Wesley Church (ACS) Nursery School;
The Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus Kindergarten;
SRK Tarcisian Convent;
SM Convent, Ipoh (the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus).

In Montezuma, New Mexico:
The Armand Hammer United World College of the American West (now UWC-USA);

In Clinton, New York:
Hamilton College

In Rochester, New York:
The Eastman School of Music (University of Rochester)

In Ann Arbor, Michigan:
The University of Michigan (MFA program in creative writing)
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Evening Is the Whole Day: A No... Evening Is the Whole Day: A Novel (Hardcover)
by Preeta Samarasan (goodreads author!)
avg rating 4.90 — 10 ratings — published 2008
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A Dance to the Music... 05/06 Preeta is currently reading:
A Dance to the Music of Time: Second Movement (Paperback)
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Oscar and Lucinda (Paperback)
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The Outcast Preeta gave 4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars to:
The Outcast (Hardcover)
by Sadie Jones
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read in April, 2008

Preeta Preeta said: "It took me a few chapters to warm to the prose, which felt a bit clumsy at first -- like big grey blocks the writer kept dropping on my foot -- but as I grew to love the protagonist, I came to see the prose as an essential part of him, an expression ...more "
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by V.V. Ganeshananthan
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Middlemarch Preeta gave 2 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars to:
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by George Eliot
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