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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh PalNilu. A is a mother of four and a retired preschool teacher who took to writing for pleasure after her children left the parental home to forge their own lives. She enjoys writing fictional family sagas. Checkmate Sri Lanka is her second novel, set in her homeland, the beautiful island of Sri Lanka.Read More...
Nilu. A is a mother of four and a retired preschool teacher who took to writing for pleasure after her children left the parental home to forge their own lives. She enjoys writing fictional family sagas. Checkmate Sri Lanka is her second novel, set in her homeland, the beautiful island of Sri Lanka.
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A tale of two traditional Sri Lankan families, one from the southern coastal belt and the other from the highlands.
Two families bound by a single tragic occurrence which link their fates together.
Two women whose stories
unfold like a game of chess.
Kamalini, the White queen, born with a silver spoon to the upper echelons of society, possessing every material comfort but unlucky in finding true love.
Mallika the Black queen,
A tale of two traditional Sri Lankan families, one from the southern coastal belt and the other from the highlands.
Two families bound by a single tragic occurrence which link their fates together.
Two women whose stories
unfold like a game of chess.
Kamalini, the White queen, born with a silver spoon to the upper echelons of society, possessing every material comfort but unlucky in finding true love.
Mallika the Black queen, born into the lower classes of the social strata and determined to claw her way out of poverty and attain social recognition.
Every strategic move carefully orchestrated to determine the eventual winner. Which one will emerge the victor?
A tale of two traditional Sri Lankan families, one from the southern coastal belt and the other from the highlands.
Two families bound by a single tragic occurrence which link their fates together.
Two women whose stories
unfold like a game of chess.
Kamalini, the White queen, born with a silver spoon to the upper echelons of society, possessing every material comfort but unlucky in finding true love.
Mallika the Black queen,
A tale of two traditional Sri Lankan families, one from the southern coastal belt and the other from the highlands.
Two families bound by a single tragic occurrence which link their fates together.
Two women whose stories
unfold like a game of chess.
Kamalini, the White queen, born with a silver spoon to the upper echelons of society, possessing every material comfort but unlucky in finding true love.
Mallika the Black queen, born into the lower classes of the social strata and determined to claw her way out of poverty and attain social recognition.
Every strategic move carefully orchestrated to determine the eventual winner. Which one will emerge the victor?
Bhoomi ‘Mother Earth’ - a small town girl whose talent helps her rise aboveher circumstances.
Deepani ‘Still waters’ - an innocent, sheltered teenager awakening to the pleasures of her body.
Pavani ‘Blowing in the wind’ - a classic tale of a poor little rich girl.
Three young girls whose paths cross in the mystical seaside town of Mandvi, soon joined by the fiery Magni and blazing Surya.
The interwoven stories of these f
Bhoomi ‘Mother Earth’ - a small town girl whose talent helps her rise aboveher circumstances.
Deepani ‘Still waters’ - an innocent, sheltered teenager awakening to the pleasures of her body.
Pavani ‘Blowing in the wind’ - a classic tale of a poor little rich girl.
Three young girls whose paths cross in the mystical seaside town of Mandvi, soon joined by the fiery Magni and blazing Surya.
The interwoven stories of these five women spans three generations, and covers the attitudes towards gender, sex, marriage, and race at the time.
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