Preeta Samarasan


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Preeta Samarasan

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url
http://www.goodreads.com/profile/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


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 Ann Arbor, Michigan:
The University of Michigan (MFA program in creative writing)
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books by Preeta Samarasan

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avg rating: 4.20 | 69 ratings | 1 distinct work
Evening Is the Whole Day: A No... Evening Is the Whole Day: A Novel (Hardcover)
by Preeta Samarasan (Goodreads author!)
avg rating 4.20 — 69 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)
by Anthony Powell
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recommended for: anglophiles who love books and films in which nothing happens



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October 07
No Pain Like This Bo... Preeta marked as to-read:
No Pain Like This Body (Paperback)
by Harold Sonny Ladoo
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by Oliver W. Sacks
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September 21
Oscar and Lucinda Preeta gave 4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars to:
Oscar and Lucinda (Paperback)
by Peter Carey
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recommended for: people who love dense Victorian novels
read in September, 2008

Preeta Preeta said: "Okay, so I finally finished this, after what, 2 years? In my defence, I did lose my copy of the book when I was about halfway through. But truthfully, that isn't the *only* reason it took me so long. This is an incredibly slow, dense read, which i...more "
September 13
The Yellow Wallpaper Preeta gave 3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars to:
The Yellow Wallpaper
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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September 12
Brideshead Revisited Preeta gave 4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars to:
Brideshead Revisited (Paperback)
by Evelyn Waugh
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316496 New comment on Marty's review of Oscar and Lucinda
Nophoto-f-25x33 Preeta wrote: "It won the Booker Prize, not the Orange -- the Orange prize is only for women :-) . "

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September 07
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Nophoto-f-25x33 Preeta wrote: "But why only 4 stars then? "

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September 06
The Fifth Child Preeta gave 3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars to:
The Fifth Child (Paperback)
by Doris May Lessing
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