Yalpanam A Novel
Yalpanam A Novel
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‘Yalpanam’, an old colonial house on Coal Island in Malaysia, is swarming with ghosts. Its inhabitant, one hundred and eighty-five year old recluse, Pushpanayagi, has been avoiding them for decades. But that is about to change. When eighteen-year-old neighbour Maxim Cheah, disgruntled at home, arrives on an apparent whim at ‘Yalpanam’, they begin an unlikely friendship that will rock Maxim’s world, and send Pushpanayagi whirling through space-time, back to 19th century and 1940s Malaya. Will the ghosts of the old lady’s past—a rigid British lepidopterist, his melancholic first wife, his deceptively vibrant second wife, their opium-addicted servant—release her? What will Maxim discover from her friendship with her enigmatic neighbour?
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ISBN13: 9789814914116
Penguin, 2021
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