Search - List of Books by Padma Viswanathan

Short Stories

Novels

• , takes place in South India in the first half of the twentieth century.

Plays

• "House of Sacred Cows," originally produced by Northern Light Theatre in Edmonton and later published in the volume Ethnicities: Plays from the New West (1999)
• "By Air, By Water, By Wood", Frog and Nightgown Productions 2000, published South Asian Review, 2008

Radio plays

• "Disco Does Not Suck", CBC Radio, 1999

Anthologies

In the introduction to her stunning first novel, Padma Viswanathan describes her grandmother’s faltering attempts to recount their family history. “This time, she started farther back,” she writes of one occasion, “with a story I’d never heard: of her own grandmother, married as a child and widowed before she was out of her teens; of that grandmother’s son, childless and embittered; and her daughter, my grandmother’s mother, victimized by her marriage.” After trips to India, enormous amounts of research, and not a little invention, the result is The Toss of a Lemon.