One Hundred Shades of White

by Preethi Nair

Book Overview

'Preethi packs a powerful punch in this book about family, forgiveness and the power of truth.' Guardian

When her husband uproots their family from India to a small house in London, Nalini trusts he knows best. But when he abandons them for his secret family, Nalini is left battling for her family's survival.

Her maternal instincts in overdrive, Nalini protects her children by telling them he's passed away. Yet for her teenage...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 000714346X
• ISBN13: 9780007143467
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

Loved it!

Being a South Asian, I don't really expect books about Indian/Pakistani to surprise me. This book however, and its characters managed to give me a warm fuzzy feeling. As a family therapist, I loved the family dynamics, the narratives, the secrets, the drama, and especially the journey of coming to a full circle for multiple generations. It's a light read and I read it on the plane. A nice vacation read!

A great book

I happend by chance to see this book. Its a great book - light but still quite deep. And what is amazing is that - despite that fact that it is set mostly in London, it takes a very intersting look at life from Kerala. And Preethi has a very good flair for writing with a very natural flow. Another interesting aspect is how she actually blends in lives of an Indian family with that of British and Spanish familes - bringing out the similarities across cultures and not get bogged down by the differences. One comment - might be kind of funny - the book presents Spanish words in italics - but the Malayalam words used are presented in normal font. Does that mean that the editors think that all these words are part of English :-)?

A Beautiful Story

This story completely touched me. It made me laugh and cry. It also made me very hungry!At first I found it hard to follow with the point of view jumping without warning from generation to generation, but then I started to really enjoy that and towards the end I thought it was perfect.A great read. Get into it on a rainy day on the lounge with a piece of naan and a butter chicken curry!