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The Moon's Complexion

The Moon's Complexion

by IreneBlack (Author)

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    Paperback 2005

    $127.20
Synopsis

Bangalore, India 1991. Ashok Rao, a brilliant young Indian doctor, has returned from England to take part in an arranged marriage. Who is the intriguing Englishwoman that seeks him out there? Journalist Hannah Petersen is being pursued across India by a sinister killer-but why? This exotic tale of love across cultural boundaries unfolds within the mystical heat of Southern India, Sri Lanka and the icy countryside of England in winter. The lives of two strangers are turned upside down when they meet and are threatened by the aftermath of a common tragedy many years before.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Publisher: Goldenford Publishers Limited
Published: 18 Oct 2005
ISBN 10: 0953161323
ISBN 13: 9780953161324
Book Overview: The author has won many prizes and awards both for her fiction and non-fiction writing. These include the following: Winner of NAWG Annual Best Short Story Award 2003, Writers' Forum Magazine Short Story Prize 2004, BBC Southern Counties Short Story Award 2006, Writers' News Short Story Competition in 2003, The New Writer Essay/Article Prize 2004, and the Writers' Forum Feature Writing competition in 2004. She was short-listed for Bristol Prize in 2008.In her works Irene is interested in examining the subject of cultural identity, She herself come from a culturally diverse background, with family spread across the world - Britain, Thailand, Laos, the USA, Germany, France, Israel, Sri Lanka, Mexico and Australia. Irene aims to make her fiction accessible, exciting and with more than a touch of suspense and romance.

Media Reviews
I challenge anyone to put this book down. ... The Moon's Complexion's combination of cliff-hangers and carefully-observed descriptions of Indian traditions, food, temples and landscapes becomes utterly irresistible. The whole novel pulsates with Black's love of India; the author has recently completed an MA on South Indian temple architecture, and her academic interests work their way quietly into the novel, providing a well-studied backdrop to the action. A thoroughly unusual novel that will appeal to anyone who's interested in India or just enjoys a skillfully constructed page-turner. Sophia Furber, Editor; Review in The London Student Newspaper January 2006
Author Bio
Irene Black is a British writer with a multicultural background. At various times she has been a psychologist, a teacher of modern languages, and since 2006 an Asian Art historian. She has lived in the USA, Australia and India. She spends most of her summers in Laos were her son lives. In 2006, she gained her MA dissertation on South Indian temples. She has won a number of national and international prizes for short stories, poetry and articles, including the 2003 National Association of Writers' Groups Annual Best Short Story award. The Moon's Complexion was the first of her thee novels. She has also published a biography of her parents If only I could have News from You ( September 2016), the story of their lives under the Nazis and their amazing exodus from Germany as well as an introduction to Hindu temples (2018).