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

Weisbord, Merrily

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0773537910 ISBN 13: 9780773537910

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Merrily Weisbord is an award-winning author, filmmaker, and broadcaster.

Review:

"The Love Queen of Malabar is something of a thriller about censorship and transgression; an homage to a woman who is so powerful she wraps herself around your heart." --roverarts.com

"Weisbord could always have written a novel. But few novelists exploring similar exotic cultures these days produce work of such high literary quality as The Love Queen of Malabar. " --John Barber, Globe and Mail

"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." --South Asian Post

About this edition

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0773537910
• ISBN 13: 9780773537910
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288