The love queen of Malabar
Subtitle: memoir of a friendship with Kamala Das
By: Merrily Weisbord
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Montreal
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780773537910
Subjects: Malayalam Authors; Friends and associates; Écrivains malayālam; Biographies; Écrivaines de l'Inde; Indic Women authors; Amis et relations; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Cochin, Munnar, Kovalam, South India 1995. The stranger and I ; An introduction ; Love in another country ; Esoteric exotica ; Lines addressed to a Devadesi; title: Montreal, Laurentian Mountains, New York, 1995. Maple leaves red as drying blood ; I shall carry you with me ; Child bride ; Riding a tiger; title: Delhi, Cochin, Kovalam, 1997. Orbits of friendship ; Life is but a dream ; The husband who neither loved nor used her but was a ruthless watcher; title: Cochin, Calicut, Malabar, 2000. Bliss in the scent of his perspiration ; Beyond the outskirts of the city ; The fear of the year ; A pale green pond; title: The Laurentians, Montreal, 2000. Gift of a man ; The depth of sequestered pools; title: Cochin, 2003. A touch of moonlight ; You embrace me; title: Cochin, 2004. Exhalations ; A cloudburst of intense fantasy; title: Cochin, Punnayurkulam, 2005. The close to me ; The place of quiet happiness.