Unsaid: An Asian Anthology

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Are we ready to listen to the unspoken words around us His wife's voice was unmistakable. She was moaning and sighing, and he could hear his divan creaking. How he wished he had not come home that night. He was a mere mortal. His heart had betrayed him. What can he do Somewhere else in the world a child watches her father bullied into submission, while another is teased for his queer choices by those he trusts. Will the soft voices of the weak ever be heard Nothing - not even death - was going to stop her from joining her family during the annual lantern festival celebrations. The dead do walk amongst us, don't they When the sun sets in the forest, a woman pays the price for ignoring the village elders' beliefs. Is there any truth to these old wives' tales Fifteen stories, all set in Asia. Fifteen storytellers, who have mastered the art of laying bare the human psyche. Stories of pain, and power, and good fighting the bad. Stories that take you to the mystical dark side. Stories that knot family ties in darkness. This is the UNSAID- An Asian Anthology.

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Dr Anitha Devi Pillai is a Senior Lecturer at National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University where she teaches courses on creative writing, writing pedagogy and academic writing. She is an avid reader and writer and has published short stories, essays and poems. She is particularly interested in themes related to culture, heritage and Asian communities. Anitha has also written and edited six books including From Kerala to Singapore- Voices from the Singapore Malayalee Community (2017) for which she was awarded the Pravasi Express Research Excellence Award in 2017. Some of her other books are From Estate to Embassy- Memories of an Ambassador (2019), A View of Stars- Stories of Love (2020), The Story of Onam (in press) and translated a Tamil novel to English, Sembawang- A Novel (2020). She is currently working on her own collection of short stories titled How do you Want your Dumplings Stories of Food and Love.