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    Return to what remains
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    Return to what remains

    By Kavita Nandan

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    Composed during Covid-19, these poems reveal the fragility of life and the strength of love in dark times. The poet finds solace in the little things of life: a cup of coffee with a friend, a walk by the seashore with her family, in the quiet loveliness of the natural environment, in the dailiness of living even as death seems around the corner.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDebbie Lee
    Release dateOct 3, 2022
    ISBN9781761093906
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    Kavita Nandan

    Kavita Nandan was born in New Delhi, grew up in Fiji and lives in Sydney with her partner, Michael and their son, Jesse. She completed her PhD on the writing of V.S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie at The Australian National University. Kavita is the author of Home after Dark, a novel about the search for home in the aftermath of the Fijian military coups of 1987. She is the editor of Stolen Worlds: Fiji-Indian Fragments, the co-editor of Unfinished Journeys: India File From Canberra and Writing the Pacific.

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      That alternate reality of 2020-21 is so beautifully captured in Return to What Remains. So many hilarious, insightful, painfully lovely moments caught in the pages. So refreshing to revisit that time through the senses of a wild, clever and rebellious mind, refusing to be locked in time and place.

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