Storizen Magazine August 2018 Issue | Chiranjiv Patel VI | Page 24

STORIZEN NEWS
THE QUEEN
OF JASMINE
COUNTRY
HarperCollins India is proud to
announce, on the occasion of
Andal Jayanti, the publication of
Sharanya Manivannan’s The
Queen of Jasmine Country, which
imagines the life of the devotional
poet Andal from medieval
Tamilagam, in October 2018.
This is Manivannan’s second
book of fiction, after the award-
winning collection of short stories
The High Priestess Never
Marries.
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About The Queen of Jasmine
Country: Ninth century. In
Puduvai, a small town in what we
now know as Tamil Nadu, young
Kodhai is taught to read and to
write by her adoptive father, a
garland-weaving poet. As she
discovers the power of words,
she also realizes that the longing
for a great love that she has been
nursing within her – one that
does not suppress her desire
AUGUST 2018
BY SHARANYA MANIVANNAN