Description
MY STORY is the candid and provocative story of a talented writer who at a moment of rapture decides that she must have her womanhood. As she explores and reveals her emotional yearnings and intimacies, unknown fibres of her being rise in revolt - and as she describes she hacks blood from the soul. This is truly a portrait of a lady. Kamala Das is at once sensuous and passionate, poignant and delightful. She does not recoil in shame in the search for poetic justice; she cannot for her story is nurtured by the fires of indignation. Yet she can be sublime, so often touchingly so.......
"I have left colourful youth behind. Perhaps I mixed my pleasures as carelessly as I mixed my drinks and passed out too soon on the couch of life."
"The taking was brutal and brief. The only topic of conversation that delighted him was sex."
Acclaimed as one of the ten best books of 1976. The most sensuous life story ever written. Refreshingly candid. Poignantโฆ and delightfully provocative.
โEvery middle-class bed is a cross on which the woman is crucified.. Men fall in lust, not love. Women crash in real self-destroying loveโ. Author of over 30 novels in Malayalam and 3 books of poems in English, Kamala Das has blazed a new trail of emancipation for Indian women. My Story combines her love for truth with candour and poignancy. ISBN:MYSTORYKAMALA
