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Valimiki's daughter by Mootoo, Shani is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Valimiki's daughter about?
In Valmikis Daughter , critically acclaimed and best-selling novelist Shani Mootoo returns to the style and some of the themes she first explored in her breakout book, Cereus Blooms at Night. Mootoo introduces readers to the Krishnus, a well-to-do Trinidadian family firmly ensconced in the strict social hierarchy of the island. In this story of family secrets, patriarch Valmiki conceals a painful fact about his sexual identity while his youngest, the lively and intelligent Viveka, struggles to come to terms with a painful secret connected to her sexual identity. As Valmikis and Vivekas secrets threaten to shake the foundations of the family, this beautifully written and hypnotically paced novel explores the complex interaction of race, gender, class, and sexuality in a closed society. From Booklist In Mootoos latest novel, it is a fathers secrets (support of a male lover, multiple heterosexual liaisons) that drive an Asian IndianTrinidadian familys internal and social lives. Viveka, the older child, seeks to discover her place in the formal, restrictive traditions of the wealthy Indian community, while her mother schemes to keep Valmikis pursuits a secret by manipulating those
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It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Mootoo, Shani
- Publisher
- ACP - House of Anansi Press
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780887848988
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction