Lakshmis Secret Diary - A Novel

Lakshmi's Secret Diary is a remarkable Indian Francophone novel set in Pondicherry, the former capital of French India, that tells the story of Lakshmi the temple elephant's attempt to escape her fate.

List of contents

Translator’s Note
Lakshmi’s Secret Diary
Translator’s Afterword
Acknowledgments

About the author

Ari Gautier is an Indian Francophone writer and poet from the former French Indian territory of Pondicherry, now based in Norway. One of the few contemporary Indian writers who adopts French as a primary literary language, he is also the author of the novel Le Thinnai and the short story collection Nocturne Pondichéry.

Sheela Mahadevan is lecturer in French and Francophone studies at the University of Liverpool.

Summary

Lakshmi’s Secret Diary is a remarkable Indian Francophone novel set in Pondicherry, the former capital of French India, that tells the story of Lakshmi the temple elephant’s attempt to escape her fate.

Product details

• Authors: Ari Gautier, Sheela (TRN)/ Gautier Mahadevan
• Assisted by: Sheela Mahadevan (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.08.2024
• EAN: 9780231212045
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21204-5
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Fiction, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / Indic, Anthologies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry), FICTION / World Literature / France / 21st Century, FICTION / World Literature / India / 21st Century, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary