‘A magical, exuberant tragic-comic vision of post-colonial Malaysia reminiscent of Rushdie and Roy. In prose of acrobatic grace, Samarasan conjures a vibrant portrait, by turns intimate and sweeping, of characters and a country coming of age. The debut of a significant, and thrilling new talent.’ Peter Ho DaviesSet in Malaysia, this spellbinding, exuberant first novel introduces us to a prosperous Indian immigrant family, as it slowly peels away its closely guarded secrets....

English-language original by Malaysian author, for readers of Zadie Smith, Kiran Desai and Arundhati RoyThe author’s debut novel Evening Is The Whole Day was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2009 and sold 2,500 copies in hardcover and another 2,500 in paperback on BookScanEvening Is The Whole Day received starred reviews from Booklist and Library Journal and a glowing review from the NYT: “A delicious first novel … Samarasan’s fa...

A "psychologically acute and boldly plotted" tale of a wealthy, dysfunctional family in Malaysia ( Booklist, starred review).Set in Malaysia, this internationally acclaimed debut novel offers an unflinching look at relationships between parents and children, brothers and sisters, the wealthy and poor, a country and its citizens—all through the eyes of the prosperous Rajasekharan family.When Chellam, the family's rubber-plantation-bred servant girl, ...

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