Onion Curry And The Nine Times Table: The Samyukta Anthology Of Malayalam Stories (Paperback)

This collection brings some of the most fascinating contemporary Malayalam stories by women. They possess a fine-grained sense of place—claustrophobic tharavads, forest sounds and the songs of fishermen—and sexual violence is explored in all its complexity. Onion Curry and the Nine Times Table brings some of the most fascinating contemporary Malayalam stories by women. A struggling single mother listens to her little girl’s urgent and original projects to bring them riches. The arctic landscapes of her childhood reading shift strangely when a woman decides to visit them for herself. Another story describes an ordinary afternoon where nothing really happens—except that dreamscapes resurface with an undertow of remembered pain. The stories possess a fine-grained sense of place—claustrophobic tharavads, forest sounds, the songs of fishermen. Sexual violence is explored in all its complexity—male fears, a girl’s pleasure in her body, recurring encounters with casual abuse, with fiction that does violence to female experience.