If the Moon Smiled

Author: Martha C Nussbaum
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 225
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0340284729

Description

A stirring and lyrical novel, a poignant tale about the powerful bonds that shape a women's life.

As a young woman in Sri Lanka, Manthri marvels at the promise of life and years for a future of fulfilled dreams. Years on, she finds herself in a loveless marriage, in a foreign land, and estranged from her two Australian children. Torn between an idyllic past to which she cannot return and a present that breaks her heart, she never loses touch those dreams, nor abandons her passionate enchantment with life.

THE AUTHOR:

Chandani Lokuge is a Sri Lankan in Australia. She complete a Ph.D. at Flinders University, Adelaide, where she now teaches in the English Department. Her first book, Moth and Other Stories, was published in 1993. Her short fiction has been widely anthologized.