Onam in a Nightie, Anjana Menon
Onam in a Nightie, Anjana Menon
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Onam in a Nightie
Stories from a Kerala Quarantine

Author: Anjana Menon

Narrator: Mary Joseph

Unabridged: 6 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/27/2022

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

In India's tropical paradise, stands a town wrapped around a giant roundabout, where a canny caretaker with a French connection holds sway. Vying for his attention are two competing neighbours. Appu holds lessons for the living but Maya cares only for the dead. And a gastronome dog plays ball girl to tennis-loving nuns. At the centre is an imposing temple so ancient that no one knows exactly when it was built. Here, even a tiny railway station has set its own rules for acceptance and belonging. On the other side of the tracks, a baker runs errands for total strangers in the middle of a pandemic. Malgudi Days meets reality in the search for joy and belonging in a book that is alternatively heartwarming and hilarious. Anjana Menon takes you to a place that you wish stays that way forever, in these true stories of hope and resilience from a midway Kerala town.

About Anjana Menon

Anjana Menon has been wrestling with words for as long as she can remember. After studying literature, she got sucked into a journalism career that took her to Southeast Asia and Europe with Bloomberg News.She returned to India as one of the founder-editors of the business newspaper Mint and then ran a television newsroom before setting up her own content strategy consultancy. She is a co-author of What's Your Story? The Essential Business Storytelling Handbook, published by Penguin Random House.A columnist who thought she would grow up to be an artist, she likes people more than gadgets, dogs even more than people and slow life over hurried living.Anjana divides her time between Delhi and London, wishing instead to be in Kyoto, knowing fully well the foolishness of her desires. This is her debut creative non-fiction book. 

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dr. Appu on August 30, 2023

We might have read a few books that discuss the serious problems and after-effects of the coronavirus pandemic. This is a book looking at the lighter side of it, written in an engaging manner. The author discusses her experiences when she returned to Kerala during the lockdown to her native place to......more

Goodreads review by Umesh on January 29, 2022

The author tries to conjure a literary memoir out of her quarantine and homecoming experiences but unfortunately, the life of privilege which the author lives dampens the prospects of the book's success. Mosquitoes are the biggest threat, home delivery of payasam is the biggest thrill and other such......more

Goodreads review by Neha on January 26, 2022

I started this book with a very high expectations. But I was disappointed as the book as I go on reading the pages. The language used is unnecessarily tough to impress in some of the parts where simple writing would have marked more suitable effect on readers mind. It's a book which reflects MODI ha......more

Goodreads review by Jyotsna on February 11, 2023

Rating: 3.5 stars Net Promoter Score: 8 (Neutral) A fun set of short stories, I loved the first part of the book a lot. However, the second half was a drag because the author had nothing much to discuss. I loved the sketches too! Recommend as a light read ONLY Or skip this one all together......more

Goodreads review by Chhavi on May 18, 2022

“Isolation does that. It makes you look at things more closely, examine your relationships and surrounding in minutiae.” Privilege often allows us to afford better opportunities, isn’t it? 2 years ago, while the world was busy fighting for survival, some of us leveraged that time to rediscover oursel......more

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