Jayasree Kalathil, Sandhya Mary

Maria, Just Maria (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

'A rare novel.' - S. HAREESH

'A must-read!' - DAISY ROCKWELL

Following the death of her grandfather, Maria has stopped speaking - not because she can't, but because she doesn't want to.

Now in a psychiatric hospital, as she begins the process of 'reconnecting with reality', Maria recalls her journey of being 'just Maria' - a girl born into a Syrian Christian family in Kerala, whose companions were a grandfather who took her along to wander around the village and its toddy shops, a great-aunt with dementia who challenged Maria's position as the youngest in the family, a dog with a penchant for philosophy, various long-dead family members including a great-grandmother with a knack for prophecies, a patron saint who insisted on interfering in people's affairs, and Karthav Eesho Mishiha with whom Maria has regular conversations.

Sandhya Mary's novel Maria, Just Maria - masterfully translated by the award-winning Jayasree Kalathil - is an insightful and humorous take on ideas like normal-abnormal, natural-human, love-hate, etc. that define contemporary society, and the exuberant and moving story of a woman trying to find her place in this world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Harper Perennial India
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789356993907
• Artikelnr.: 69558548

Autorenporträt

Jayasree Kalathil is the author of The Sackclothman, a children's book that has been translated into Malayalam, Telugu and Hindi. Her translations from Malayalam have won the JCB Prize for Literature, the Crossword Book Award for Translation, the V. Abdulla Memorial Translation Award, Jury Commendation from Muse India-GSP Rao Translation Award, and been shortlisted for the American Literary Translators Association National Translation Award. In 2024, her translation of Sandhya Mary's Maria, Just Maria brought her the Crossword Book Award for the second time and a third appearance in the shortlist for the JCB Prize for Literature. As part of the global effort #readpalestine, she has translated Palestinian poetry into Malayalam, including works by Mosab Abu Toha, Mahmoud Darwish, Refaat Alareer, Hiba Abu Nada and Samih al-Qasim.

Originally from Kottakkal in Malappuram district, Kerala, Jayasree currently lives in the New Forest in Hampshire, UK.