Amla Mater

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Pub Date 15 Jun 2018 | Archive Date 09 May 2018
Yali Books | Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Members' Titles

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Description

In the stillness of autumn, I feel I can almost hear someone hum ‘Lokame tharavadu (the world is my home)….’
 
In her tiny flat in East London, as Mili waits for her baby to arrive, little things remind her of her life in India­­—the scent of jasmine flowers, a heavy downpour, a late-night cup of coffee, an amla or gooseberry—and she is overcome with a deep desire to recreate the flavours of her childhood. Can a jar of amla pickle help her travel back to that safe haven she once called home?
 
In this sweetly nostalgic graphic novel, the narrator recounts her meandering journey from her ancestral village in South India to the United Kingdom, capturing the deep feeling of longing for home that shapes the lives of emigrants everywhere.

In the stillness of autumn, I feel I can almost hear someone hum ‘Lokame tharavadu (the world is my home)….’
 
In her tiny flat in East London, as Mili waits for her baby to arrive, little things...


A Note From the Publisher

Ebook available for $6.99 (ISBN-13 - 978-0989061575).

Ebook available for $6.99 (ISBN-13 - 978-0989061575).


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ISBN 9780989061599
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Featured Reviews

I always love stories that have a fabric of nostalgia woven in their premise. I have grown up reading stories like these. That's how we come to Like Premchand, Mahadevi Verma, among others. They bring the India of a certain past alive to us.
This story did the same, although it doesn't concern itself with the distant past. It brings the nostalgia of not-so-long-ago: the times we were growing up. By we, I refer to the coterie of educated people, who grew up in the middle-class neighbourhoods, making memories out of pickles and flavours and tastes and smells. All of the senses that we take with ourselves wherever we go. And that means, even abroad.
Reading such a tale in the form of a graphic novel was a first for me, and the author did complete justice!

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