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Greetings Book readers,
Introducing a new author Shirani Rajapakse on our blog: with her latest book: I Exist. Therefore I am.
This book is collection of nine stories about women in India. These stories portray the struggles, hardships, discrimation they face for being born in this gender.
Lets get to know the book more:
Blurb:
A newly married woman burns to death. A mother is forced to kill her infant daughter. A young woman with a promising future becomes a slave to a holy man. A recently widowed woman is left on the bank of a river to die. I Exist. Therefore I Am takes you on a journey into the world of women and the trauma they face for simply being.
Moving yet also disturbing, these nine stories set in India are about internal struggles, desperation, vulnerability as well as yearning for something better. It is about secrets, words that cannot be spoken, social restrictions and smiles that don’t quite reach the eyes.
In story after story, Rajapakse portrays the terrible treatment towards women as a result of religious, cultural and tribal taboos placed on them, and the suffering at the hands not just of society but of their own kind.
This is fiction that is created for readers that aren’t afraid to question society and its beliefs and tear open the wounds to heal the soul.
They describe what it means to be women, the helplessness they are confronted with and the unending hope they have for a better future. Will these women’s sacrifices make a difference or will they have been in vain?
Do buy a copy of the book, read and review it on Amazon & Goodreads. Thank you in advance.
Bye. Take care.
Introducing a new author Shirani Rajapakse on our blog: with her latest book: I Exist. Therefore I am.
This book is collection of nine stories about women in India. These stories portray the struggles, hardships, discrimation they face for being born in this gender.
Lets get to know the book more:
Blurb:
A newly married woman burns to death. A mother is forced to kill her infant daughter. A young woman with a promising future becomes a slave to a holy man. A recently widowed woman is left on the bank of a river to die. I Exist. Therefore I Am takes you on a journey into the world of women and the trauma they face for simply being.
Moving yet also disturbing, these nine stories set in India are about internal struggles, desperation, vulnerability as well as yearning for something better. It is about secrets, words that cannot be spoken, social restrictions and smiles that don’t quite reach the eyes.
In story after story, Rajapakse portrays the terrible treatment towards women as a result of religious, cultural and tribal taboos placed on them, and the suffering at the hands not just of society but of their own kind.
This is fiction that is created for readers that aren’t afraid to question society and its beliefs and tear open the wounds to heal the soul.
They describe what it means to be women, the helplessness they are confronted with and the unending hope they have for a better future. Will these women’s sacrifices make a difference or will they have been in vain?
Buy book at:
About Author:
Shirani Rajapakse is
an internationally published, award winning poet and short story writer. She won the Cha “Betrayal” Poetry Contest 2013 and was a finalist in the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Awards 2013.
Her collection of short stories Breaking
News (Vijitha Yapa 2011) was shortlisted for the Gratiaen Award. Her critically acclaimed poetry collection Chant of a Million Women (self
published 2017) won the 2018
Kindle Book Awards. It received
an Honorable Mention in the 2018 Readers’
Favorite Awards and was chosen as an
“Official Selection” in the 2018 New
Apple Summer eBook Awards for Excellence in Independent Publishing.
I
Exist. Therefore I Am is her second collection of short stories (self-
published, October 2018). Close on the heels of Chant of a Million
Women it takes on the theme of women and looks at what it means to be a woman
in modern India.
Rajapakse’s
work appears in publications around the world including, Flash:The International Short-Short Story Magazine, Litro, Silver
Birch, International Times, City Journal, Writers for Calais Refugees, The
Write-In, Asian Signature, Moving Worlds, Citiesplus, Deep Water Literary
Journal, Mascara Literary Review, Kitaab, Lakeview Journal, Cyclamens &
Swords, New Ceylon Writing, Channels, Linnet’s Wings, Spark, Berfrois,
Counterpunch, Earthen Lamp Journal, Asian Cha, Dove Tales, Buddhist Poetry
Review, About Place Journal, Skylight 47, The Smoking Poet, New Verse News, The
Occupy Poetry Project and in anthologies, Fireflies & Fairy Dust: A Fantasy Anthology
(Eu-2 2018), Flash Fiction International (Norton 2015),
Ballads (Dagda 2014), Short & Sweet (Perera Hussein 2014), Poems for
Freedom (River Books 2013), Voices Israel Poetry Anthology 2012, Song of Sahel
(Plum Tree 2012), Occupy Wall Street Poetry Anthology, World Healing World
Peace (Inner City Press 2012 & 2014) and Every Child Is Entitled to Innocence (Plum Tree 2012).
She has a BA in English
Literature (University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka) and a MA in International
Relations (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India).
She
interviewed, promoted and reviewed books by indie authors on The Writers Space
at shiranirajapakse.wordpress.com
Connect at:
Do buy a copy of the book, read and review it on Amazon & Goodreads. Thank you in advance.
Bye. Take care.
Comments
Thanks for featuring my book on the Spotlight.
Have a nice weekend.
Shirani
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