It is the Second World War and Kamala and her brother are removed from their parents' home in Calcutta to the safer environs of their village in northern Kerala. At once an outsider and an integral part of her ancestral home, Kamala struggles to fathom the intricacies of class, caste and language. But surrounded by people like her adoring Ammamma, the servant Sankaran who promises to teach her the crow-language, and Valli who tells her stories of yakshis whose breasts are as big as jackfruits, Kamala soon discovers the joys of growing up as the centre of everyone's universe. As Calcutta fades from her mind like an old dream, while the thudding of the drums at the Para festival, the roar of the velichappadu as he becomes possessed and the songs of the parayankaali dancers become absolute realities of life.

Childhood In Malabar: A Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

DAS, Kamala

Memoirs

India Penguin Modern Classics

My Story

Arts & Literature

Quartet Books

My Story: The Compelling Autobiography of the Most Contreversial Indian Writer

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Ind-Us

Sterling Pub Private Ltd

Padmavati the Harlot and Other Stories

British & Irish

Ot̲t̲ayaṭippāta

Distributors, Current Books

Living Poetry: English Poetry from Kerala, Seven Contemporary Poets: A Poetry Anthology

Alexander, Meena

Thayil, Jeet

Mathai, Anna Sujatha

Kottoor, Gopikrishnan

Surendran, C P

Nambisan, Vijay

Poetry

Independently published

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