Présentation de l'éditeur
Caught on her return home, Rabia gets a beating from her mother, Zohra, who cries as she beats her daughter into submission. Firdaus is beautiful and of marriageable age. A groom is found for her, a wealthy man who lives abroad. On her wedding night, she takes one look at him and says, 'I'm not going to live with you, don't touch me!' Inside their male dominated world, Rabia, Zohra, Firdaus, and many others make their small rebellions and compromises, friendships are made and broken, families come together and fall apart, and almost imperceptibly change creeps in. Salma's beautiful, evocative, poetic novel recreates the sometimes suffocating, and sometimes heartbreaking world of Muslim women in southern India.
Revue de presse
"Salma has played a pioneering role in Tamil poetry, probing unexplored areas of middle class Tamil female experience. Hers is a domestic landscape, intimate in scale, mapping a word of sexual politics, the silences in family relaionships,...and unquestioned hierarchies." Poetry international --Poetry International
Biographie de l'auteur
The author was born in 1968 in Tamil Nadu. Her first poetry collection shocked conservative society where women are supposed to remain silent. She faced obscenity charges, and violent threats. She was Panchayat head and now presides over the social welfare board of Thuvaran-Kurichi in Tamil Nadu
