Matilda Pinto is at heart and in practice a teacher. All else is a by-product of that vocation. This is her first novel. This from one who for the first sixteen years of her life l...показать большеMatilda Pinto is at heart and in practice a teacher. All else is a by-product of that vocation. This is her first novel. This from one who for the first sixteen years of her life lived without books other than a few Readers Digest Magazines borrowed from an uncle. This book needs to be read if only to see how writers are born. M.P. lives in Mangalore, India, with roots in Coorg and grandchildren in California and friends all over.показать меньше