by Rani Manicka · Grijalbo Mondadori · tapa dura · ISBN 9788425338168
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«Madre del Arroz» is the fiction novel by Rani Manicka, published by Grijalbo Mondadori in hardcover (528 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Lakshmi, a 20th-century matriarch, from her childhood in Ceylon to her arranged marriage in Malaysia, where she becomes the mainstay of her family and survives the Japanese invasion. Narrated through the voices of Lakshmi and other relatives, the story weaves together love, betrayal and superstitions in a lush and hostile setting, culminating when her great-granddaughter Nisha reconstructs the family legacy across four generations of women.
The book was originally published as «The Rice Mother»; this Spanish edition includes the translation by Albert Solé. The novel won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for best first book for Southeast Asia and the Pacific in 2003.
Recommended for readers of fiction and literature set in Asia, as well as for those seeking a family saga with historical and cultural background.
Rani Manicka is a Malaysian-born novelist, who divides her time between Malaysia and the United Kingdom.
