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Preeta Samarasanauthor profile |
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| gender | female | |||
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| 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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about this author
Please see www.preetasamarasan.com for more about the book and a regularly updated schedule of events. *** 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) ...more |
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books by Preeta Samarasancombine editionsavg rating: 4.90 | 10 ratings | 1 distinct work
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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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Oscar and Lucinda (Paperback) by Peter Carey bookshelves: currently-reading |
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recommended for: people with beating hearts
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"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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Waiting: A Novel (Paperback) by Ha Jin bookshelves: books-for-hedgehogs |
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recommended for: hedgehogs, sloths, slow lorises
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"This book did make me feel like I was waiting, so maybe it did what it set out to do. But it wasn't a good kind of waiting. It was the kind of waiting I used to do when I would have to go to some government office with my parents and they would mak...more
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The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems (Paperback) by Michael Ondaatje |
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Love Marriage: A Novel (Paperback) by V.V. Ganeshananthan bookshelves: to-read |
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