Kilimanjaro Bookstall (Rajendran Edathumkara)Ī bookstall is where knowledge meets creativity and where ‘otherhood’ is imbibed into one’s self.Curiosity turns into obsession and then to empathy as he discovers the trails of silent pioneers like Mariamma. In this tribute to the lives of women who left their homeland to serve the globe, a man attempts to look back at his ancestry, tracking down the story of Mariamma, a military nurse who lived eight decades ago tending to survivors of World War II. In his latest novel, Benyamin traces the life of expatriate nurses, who saved their families in Kerala from poverty but whose struggles or lives or even names were never part of history.
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