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Meira Chand


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Meira Chand is of Indian-Swiss parentage and was born and educated in London at Putney High School. She studied art at St. Martin’s School of Art and later specialised in textile design at Hammersmith Art School. In 1962 she left England to settle in Japan with her Indian husband. Although she spent several years in India in the early 1970s, she afterwards returned again to live in Japan. In 1997 she moved to Singapore, where she currently lives.

The themes of Meira Chand’s novels explore the search for identity and belonging. Five of her novels, The Gossamer Fly, Last Quadrant, The Bonsai Tree, The Painted Cage and A Choice of Evils, are all set in Japan. Contemporary India is the location of House of the Sun that, in 1990, was adapted for ...more

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Average rating: 3.73 · 702 ratings · 125 reviews · 17 distinct works • Similar authors
A Different Sky
3.78 avg rating — 494 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions
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Sacred Waters
3.98 avg rating — 41 ratings — 4 editions
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The Bonsai Tree
3.56 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1983 — 9 editions
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A Choice of Evils
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 20 ratings — 8 editions
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A Far Horizon
3.40 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2002 — 9 editions
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Last quadrant
3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1982 — 6 editions
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The Gossamer Fly
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 16 ratings — 9 editions
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The Painted Cage
3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions
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House of the Sun
3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1989 — 7 editions
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Last Qudrant
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