by Indu Sundaresan · Michel Lafon · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782749909028
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«Au couvent des Petites Fleurs» is the short story collection by Indu Sundaresan, published by Michel Lafon in paperback (220 pages, in French).
Stories about contemporary India: a woman adopted in the United States receives a letter from the orphanage where she grew up; a couple makes an irrevocable decision to escape their son's violence; a gardener tries to accept a grandson born out of wedlock. Indu Sundaresan portrays the tensions between modernity, caste and the country's customs.
The English original of the work, In the Convent of Little Flowers, was published in 2008; the French edition appeared in 2009. Translation by Sylvie Cohen.
For readers interested in today's India, its social contradictions and short stories with a cultural backdrop.
Indu Sundaresan is an Indian-American author of historical fiction.
