Yellow is the Colour of Longing

About the Book Two strangers meet in a hospital ward and are instantly drawn to each other. A heartbroken widow finds unexpected solace when she encounters two men in love. A father watches helplessly as the sensation-hungry media preys upon his young daughter in the wake of a sex scandal.

In Yellow Is the Color of Longing, Meera's astonishing range of narrative techniques is on full display. These defiant, ebullient stories lay bare the fault lines behind the façade of everyday life, sometimes with dark humor and sometimes with astoundingly bitter sadness. Devika's sparkling translation expertly brings out the subtlety and nuance of Meera's unique voice.

About the Author K.R. Meera is a multi-award-winning writer and journalist. She has published short stories, novels and essays, and has won some of the most prestigious literary prizes including the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award, the Vayalar Award and the Odakkuzhal Award. Most recently, she won the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award for Aarachar, widely hailed as a contemporary classic and published by Penguin Books India as Hangwoman. She lives in Kottayam with her husband Dileep and daughter Shruthi.

A bilingual feminist scholar, J. Devika has translated Malayali women writers from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century’s, and contemporary authors like Sarah Joseph, Nalini Jameela, Anitha Thampi and V.M. Girija besides K.R. Meera.

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