The Tiniest House of Time

"""The Tiniest House of Time is an unforgettable portrait of an Indian-Malay family caught in the maelstrom of history and of a young woman who must make sense of all that she's inherited and all that she's lost. Iyer has written a truly epic novel, smart beautiful tough and wise. Not to be missed."" - Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prizewinner 'The Indian Diaspora has spread across the world, carrying within each family stories and secrets that remain hidden unless prodded by circumstances. In Sreedhevi Iyer's novelThe Tiniest House of Time, pre-war Burma and post-colonial Malaysia form the bookends of a family saga that brings together a grandmother with stories not yet shared and a granddaughter keen to find and assert herself. Stories that grandmothers tell their grandchildren are meant to comfort and pacify, but as Sandhya Sastri and her grandmother Susheela begin their journey, they make discoveries that shift from the personal to the political, the individual to the collective, and what's not been told and what must be said.' - Salil Tripathi, writer and journalist 'The ever-shifting sands of people and place: who we are and where, are deftly explored by Sreedhevi Iyer in this insightful and charming novel. With sensitivity and subtly, Iyer explores the many shades of the universal 'I'. No-one has a single, fixed identity, rather we slip between worlds and between roles. How does one reconcile the different people we all are, in different places, in different times, with different people? And what does it mean to know another from the isolation of our own 'multi-verse'? Susheela and Sandhya are two peas in a pod, grandmother and grand-daughter, they share everything: the same birthdate, the same stars, a connection ""on a level quite inexplicable"". But everyone has secrets...' - Ben Doherty, author"