settings Bombay and the characters from Sindhi families portrayed here are believable and entertaining, A good read. Forty years earlier, at the time of Partition, the residents of Sadhbela were Hindu refugees form Sind in newly created Pakistan, Now, these Sindhi exiles live as one family, fortunes drastically changed, Meira Chand is of Indian Swiss parentage and was born and educated in London at Putney High School, She studied art at St, Martins School of Art and later specialised in textile design at Hammersmith Art School, Inshe left England to settle in Japan with her Indian husband, Although she spent several years in India in the earlys, she afterwards returned again to live in Japan, Inshe moved to Singapore, where she currently lives, The themes of Meira Chands novels explore the search for identity and belonging, Five of her novels, The Gossamer Fly, Last Quadrant, The Bonsai Tree, The Painted Cage and A Choice of Evils, are all set in Japan, Contemporary India is the location of House of the Sun that, in, was adapted for Meira Chand is of Indian Swiss parentage and was born and educated in London at Putney High School.
She studied art at St, Martins School of Art and later specialised in textile design at Hammersmith Art School, Inshe left England to settle in Japan with her Indian husband, Although she spent several years in India in the earlys, she afterwards returned again to live in Japan, Inshe moved to Singapore, where she currently lives, The themes of Meira Chands novels explore the search for identity and belonging, Five of her novels, The Gossamer Fly, Last Quadrant, The Bonsai Tree, The Painted Cage and A Choice of Evils, are all set in Japan, Contemporary India is the location of House of the Sun that, in, was adapted for the stage in London where it had a successful run at Theatre Royal Stratford East.
Also set in India, but in Calcutta during the early days of the Raj, A Far Horizon considers the notorious story of the Black Hole of Calcutta, Her new novel, A Different Sky takes place against the backdrop of colonial pre Independence Singapore, The book examines an era that includes the Second World
War and the subsequent Japanese occupation of Singapore, and also the rise of post war nationalism in Malaya.
Meira Chand is an associate member of the Centre for the Arts, National University of Singapore and has been Chairperson for the Commonwealth Writers Prize for the region of South East Asia and South Pacific.
She is involved in several programmes in Singapore to encourage and mentor young writers and to raise awareness in the country to the pleasures of reading, She was most recently writer in residence at Mansfield College, Oxford and also at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia, sitelink.
Gain House Of The Sun Depicted By Meira Chand Represented In E-Text
Meira Chand