Aa Maratheyum Marannu Marannu Njan And Slowly Forgetting That Tree…

KR Meera

Translated from Malayalam by J Devika

Oxford University Press

112 pages,Rs. 250

In Meera’s novel, the powerful memory of a former love rules Radhika’s inner world as she builds a small-time law practice and navigates a marriage she neither wanted nor resisted. Raped at age ten, and then raped again as a young college student, she is abandoned twice: first by her father, and later by Christy, who loved her but left her on the day of their wedding. When Christy comes back into her life 16 years later, shattered and unstable, their withered love blooms again.