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October 16, 2019 • 20:31 pm 0 points
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K.S. Maniam is a major writer of Indian origin, writing in English, born and living in Malaysia. Identify two of his novels from the following list.

(a) The Rice Mother (b) The Return (c) Touching Earth (d) Between Lives The right combination according to the code is :

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    K.S. Maniam, born 1942, has been writing from his early teens. His stories have appeared in numerous journals around the world. His first novel, The Return, was published in 1981 and the second, In a Far Country, in 1993. He won the first prize for The Loved Flaw: Stories from Malaysia in The New Straits Times–McDonald short-story contest (1987) and for Haunting the Tiger: Contemporary Stories from Malaysia in The New Straits Times–Shell contest (1990). He is the inaugural recipient of the Raja Rao Award (New Delhi, September 2000), for his outstanding contribution to the literature of the South Asian diaspora. He has been lecturer (1980–85) and associate professor (1986–97) in the English Department, University of Malaya, in Kuala Lumpur. He lives with his wife, son and daughter in Subang Jaya, Malaysia, and devotes his time fully to writing. 
    “The Return” by K.S. Maniam is a novel that allows the reader the opportunity to be part of a Malaysian experience. It is an experience that brings into light universal existential uncertainties such as adaptation to the ever-changing modern world, the loss of identity, the loss of family and traditional roots, the role of education in life, the opposition between authoritarian and democratic societies, and many more. The novel made me think of my own life and identity. In a way, all of us have to “return” at a point of our lives to some place that is dear to our heart. Either it is our native country, our home, or the place where our parents have grown up, it is a “return” that will always stay in our minds. It is this kind of existential problem that The Return offers us. I recommend it to all readers who are willing to dive free in the fairly new Southeast Asian world of literature. 
    Between Lives :Set in contemporary Malaysia, the novel Between Lives, by K.S. Maniam, engages with the lives and preoccupation of the Indian diaspora, but from a strikingly feminine perspective, because all its anchoring characters are women.

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