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The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das

The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das

Weisbord, Merrily

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ISBN10: 0773537910
ISBN13: 9780773537910
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: Sep 30 2010
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Awards: Hilary Weston Prize for Nonfiction, RBC Taylor Prize

Kamala Das (1934-2009) is one of India's most beloved and controversial literary figures. She was hailed and reviled as the first Indian woman to write an autobiographical cult classic about love and desire. Admirers dubbed her, The First Feminist Emotional Revolutionary of Our Time. The tabloid press called her The Love Queen of Malabar.

Merrily Weisbord found Das's work so compelling that she flew to South India to meet her. The Love Queen of Malabar is the story of their decade-long friendship, an experiment in mutual revelation. Recounting the development of their relationship, Weisbord relates the dramatic events of Das's life, including her transition from celibacy to sexual awakening at age sixty-seven when, provoking the greatest scandal of her notorious life, she converted to Islam for love and renewal.

Both observer and direct participant, Weisbord elegantly presents new biographical insights and cultural details about Kerala and India without exoticisation or stereotyping. The Love Queen of Malabar is an evocative and beautifully crafted work, as seamless as the finest novel, and will captivate readers across the globe.

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