# The Rice Mother

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- Book: [The Rice Mother](https://www.bookquiver.com/rani-manicka/the-rice-mother) ([The Rice Mother.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/rani-manicka/the-rice-mother.md))
- Authors: [Rani Manicka](https://www.bookquiver.com/rani-manicka)
- Publisher: hodder_stoughton
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4471-219-3
- Published: 2010-05-13
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

A compelling glimpse into a captivatingly exotic world of myth and magic. Beguiled by promises of wealth, fourteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her native Ceylon for Malaya and marriage to a man many years her senior. But Ayah has lied to her and her family about his circumstances and in fact he lives in poverty. A woman of formidable energy and intelligence, Lakshmi provides security, if not luxury, for her family, though at a considerable emotional cost. Then the Japanese army invades during WWII. The family bears deep scars and inflicts those wounds on the next generation. But in Nisha, Lakshmi's great-granddaughter, it is as if Fate has come full circle . . .