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A Kitchen in the Corner of the House
A Kitchen in the Corner of the House | Ambai
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A Kitchen in the Corner of the House collects twenty-five gem-like stories on motherhood, sexuality, and the body from the innovative and perceptive Tamil writer Ambai. In A Kitchen in the Corner of the House, Ambai's narrators are daring and courageous, stretching and reinventing their homes, marriages, and worlds. With each story, her expansive voice confronts the construction of gender in Tamil literature. Piecing together letters, journal entries, and notes, Ambai weaves themes of both self-liberation and confinement into her writing. Her transfixing stories often meditate on motherhood, sexuality, and the liberating, and at times inhibiting, contours of the body.
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A Kitchen in the Corner of the House | Ambai
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Faves of 2019 #adventrecommends Dec 9

Gorgeous, intimate, poetic short stories about the inner lives of women & characters who don't conform to expectations. Translated from Tamil. When short stories are written like this, I could read them all the time.

@emilyrose_x

Cathythoughts Beautiful cover ✨ 5y
rockpools Your list is doing some damage to my tbr!! 5y
Lcsmcat Sounds intriguing. 5y
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I loved In a Forest, a Deer, a collection of stories by Ambai published in India. This collection of 20 stories by Archipelago contains 8 stories that appeared in Forest. These stories about the life of Tamil women cast a spell on me. They are quiet; like the ebb & flow of a calm river in a serene forest, but contain so much intelligence & heart, with unusual female characters. I love her writing & its references to Hindu myth & Tamil classics. ⬇️

batsy After reading Jenny Odell's How to Do Nothing, I've become a bit more attentive to how writers write their (human) characters & how they see the world. Ambai's melancholy, poignant, yet life-affirming stories are very attuned to their landscape & to nature. Thoughtful women in her stories are always seeing things differently from everyone else, feeling differently, & attempting a life on their own terms. Beautiful writing. #netgalley
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Cathythoughts Beautiful description of this book ✨✨✨✨✨✨ 6y
TrishB Beautiful review 💜 6y
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batsy @Cathythoughts @TrishB Thanks, friends 😘😘 I'm happy that so much translated fiction is available to us now ❤️ 6y
saresmoore What an insightful review! This sounds wonderful. 6y
erzascarletbookgasm This review is gorgeous! 👏✨ 6y
batsy @saresmoore @erzascarletbookgasm Thanks 😘😘 I love the feeling I get when I read her 🥰 6y
Tanisha_A Brilliant review! Need to read more of translated literature. ❤️ 6y
Centique Yay - I have her other book to read too thanks to your recc! BTW I was chatting to a mum at kids basketball - I‘ve spent summer chatting to her at cricket too - started talking books and then life - turns out she is Tamil and spent some of her childhood in Sri Lanka and experienced civil war 😬 She‘s going to lend me some books about it which is such a great entry into this topic for me 🙌 (I had Sri Lanka as a TBR topic last year) 6y
batsy @Tanisha_A Thank you, lovely 💜 I finally took Tamil classes to be able to read it after years of neglect (for shame!) but my comprehension level is nowhere near reading a whole novel, sadly. But maybe I could start with short stories 😁 6y
batsy @Centique Oh, that's really interesting! I'd love to know which books you'll read. Our grandparents left ahead of the civil war. It's left a massive mark on the country and the people 😞 One of the books I should read but is still tbr is this
[tagged book]The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka's Civil War
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batsy @Centique I read this and it was pretty harrowing
[tagged book]The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers
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Centique @batsy thanks for those reccs. I never put it together that your family came from there. Gosh, my heart goes out to them. 💕I‘m amazed at how little I know about it given that it is so recent. I‘ll post any books that Kavitha lends me - her dad is a professor and she says he has lots of books he can lend me too. Best kind of a TBR explosion going on ☺️ 6y
batsy @Centique Yes indeed 🙂 6y
BiblioLitten I love Ambai‘s writing too. 💕 6y
batsy @BiblioLitten It's really special ❤️ 6y
RohitSawant This sounds so wonderful. Lovely review! 6y
batsy @rohit-sawant Thank you, Rohit! She's a wonderful writer and my Tamil comprehension being pretty basic, I'm so glad to be able to read her in translation (though I hope to read her in the original someday 🙌🏽) 6y
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