The Sound of Language: A Novel by Amulya Malladi [in Bloomsbury Review]
01 May, by in Adult Readers, Afghan, Fiction, Indian American, Repost, South Asian American
Indian-born, U.S.-, UK-, and now Denmark-domiciled Malladi is a literary chameleon, thanks in part to her changing addresses. Language, which features a young Afghan refugee woman escaping unnamable horrors under the Taliban, is almost like reading a sister text of Khaled Hosseini’s...
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A young woman returns to her home in India after a seven-year absence and has a difficult time telling her family about her non-Indian fiancé. The story is an otherwise entertaining light read about...