Preeta Samarasan
goodreads author profile
url
http://www.goodreads.com/preeta
gender
female
place of birth
Batu Gajah, Malaysia
website
genre
Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction
influences
Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, Salman Rushdie, William Faulkner, Graham Swift (especially _Waterland_), Peter Carey, Arundhati Roy
member since
May 2007
about this author
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 ...more
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Evening Is the Whole Day: A Novel by Preeta Samarasan (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.86 — 167 ratings — published 2008 9 editions |
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A Disobedient Girl: A Novel (Hardcover) by Ru Freeman bookshelves: currently-reading |
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A Dance to the Music of Time: Second Movement (Paperback) by Anthony Powell bookshelves: currently-reading |
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recommended for: anglophiles who love books and films in which nothing happens
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Preeta made a comment on Travis's review of
The Story of Lucy Gault
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Wanting (Hardcover) by Richard Flanagan |
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Preeta said:
"Actually I'd give this three and a half stars, but that's not an option here, IS IT, GOODREADS? Full review forthcoming on Fiction Writers Review, if Anne still wants it....
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The Children's Book (Hardcover) by A.S. Byatt |
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Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents (Hardcover) by Minal Hajratwala (Goodreads author) |
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