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Preeta Samarasan

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Born

Batu Gajah, Malaysia

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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

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Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, Salman Rushdie, William Faulkner, Gra ...more

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May 2007

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Preeta Samarasan has attended a lot of schools, and you should contact her to say hello if you knew her at any of them:

In Ipoh, Malaysia:
The Wesley Church (ACS) Nursery School;
The Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus Kindergarten;
SRK Tarcisian Convent;
SM Convent, Ipoh (the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus).

In Montezuma, New Mexico:
The Armand Hammer United World College of the American West (now UWC-USA);

In Clinton, New York:
Hamilton College

In Rochester, New York:
The Eastman School of Music (University of Rochester)

In Ann Arbor, Michigan:
The University of Michigan (MFA program in creative writing)

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Preeta Samarasan’s books

Average rating: 3.65 · 2,775 ratings · 537 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors

	Evening Is the Whole Day 3.64 avg rating — 1,775 ratings — published 2008 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	KL Noir: Red by Amir Muhammad (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Adib Zaini (Goodreads Author), Khairulnizam Bakeri (Goodreads Author) 3.67 avg rating — 734 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tale of the Dreamer's Son 3.85 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Principal Girl: Feminist Tales from Asia by Sharifah Aishah Osman (Editor), Tutu Dutta (Editor), Joyce Ch’ng 3.60 avg rating — 63 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Malaysian Tales: Retold & Remixed by Daphne Lee (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Adèle Geras (Foreword), Amir Muhammad (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.22 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Readings from Readings 2: New Writing from Malaysia, Singapore and Beyond by Bernice Chauly (Editor), Sharon Bakar (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Marc de Faoite (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Urban Odysseys: KL Stories by Janet Tay (Editor), Eric Forbes (Editor), Paul GnanaSelvam (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 2.72 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Still: Short Stories Inspired by Photographs of Vacated Spaces by Roelof Bakker (Editor), Richard Beard, Ava Homa 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nouvelles de Malaisie by Zurinah Hassan, Tash Aw, Anwar Ridhwan really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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A Disobedient Girl

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A Dance to the Music of Time: 2nd Movement (A Dance to the Music of Time, #4-6)

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Quotes by Preeta Samarasan (?)

“The sun goes down and the sky reddens, pain grows sharp,
light dwindles. Then is evening
when jasmine flowers open, the deluded say.
But evening is the great brightening dawn
when crested cocks crow all through the tall city
and evening is the whole day
for those without their lovers.”
― Kurontokai 234, translated by George L. Hart (found in Evening is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan)

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“For that is what miracles are like sometimes: quiet, unheralded, unglamorous to all but the beneficiary.”
― Preeta Samarasan, Evening Is the Whole Day

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