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KUALA LUMPUR, April 11 Australian-British author Catherine Menon has attributed the inspiration behind her latest novel, Fragile Monsters to childhood stories her father used to tell her when he.
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Catherine Menon: âThere was a lot of trepidation about showing my father the book.â Photograph: Suki Dhanda/The Observer
Catherine Menon: âThere was a lot of trepidation about showing my father the book.â Photograph: Suki Dhanda/The Observer
The award-winning author on her debut novel, about a Malaysian familyâs dark secrets, and her other life teaching robotics
Sat 10 Apr 2021 13.00 EDT
Catherine Menon was born in Perth, Western Australia, where her British mother and Malaysian father met. She lectures in robotics and has a PhD in pure mathematics as well as an MA in creative writing.
Fragile Monsters, her first novel, is set in rural Malaysia and unpicks a familyâs story from 1920 to the present day. At its centre are Mary, âsharp tongued and ferociousâ, and her visiting granddaughter, Durga, who tussle over the demons and dark memories that distort their past and warp the present. Hilary Mantel has described Menonâs writing as â�