Mahtab narsimhan biography
- Mahtab Narsimhan was born in Mumbai (Bombay) India.
- Mahtab immigrated to Canada in 1997 and started writing in 2004.
- Mahtab Narsimhan is an award-winning author with numerous critically acclaimed books, nominated for several awards, including The Third Eye which won the.
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Fiction (Juvenile)
Valley of the Rats
Toronto: DCB, an imprint of Cormorant Press, 2021.
PS8627.A77 V35 2021
Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)
Book nerd Krish hates the outdoors, and camping. But especially germs. When Krish and his father, Kabir, take a camping trip to Ladakh, he convinces himself that they will bond, despite their differences.
When they’re lost in a bamboo forest, teeming with black rats, and germs, Krish is at an all-time low. His GF (gut feel) and a couple of rats lead them to a hidden village, Imdur, unmarked on any map.
Krish and his father are allowed to stay, only if they follow rules. But Krish soon realizes the village has an odd custom of worshipping rats. They also have a secret. And so does his dad. Turns out, Krish has a secret too.
When all the secrets explode into the open, Krish and Kabir are in grave danger. Can Krish overcome his fears and phobias to take the chance offered to him? Or are he and his dad doomed to spend the rest of their lives among rats?
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Mumbai-born Mahtab Narsimhan immigrated to Canada in 1997 and worked in Ontario's IT Industry prior to receiving a Silver Birch award in 2009 for her debut YA novel, The Third Eye, the first in her Tara trilogy for Dundurn including The Silver Anklet and The Deadly Conch. She also published The Tiffin (Dancing Cat, 2011) and Mission Mumbai (Scholastic, 2016) in which a street-wise New York kid named Dylan Moore is invited to join his best friend, Rohit Lal, on a family vacation to India. A story of cultural transplantation in reverse, Embrace the Chicken (Orca $9.95) focuses on a young student, Shivani, recently arrived from Mumbai, who fears being embarrassed at her new Canadian school when her mother volunteers to cook one of her "stinky" Indian dishes for the school's annual fundraiser. In her kidlit title Valley of the Rats (Cormorant 13.95), for ages 9 to 12, Narsimhan tells the story of book nerd Krish who goes with his father to Ladakh, India. They get lost in a bamboo forest teeming with black rats and germs, which Kri
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About Me
Mahtab attended the J.B. Petit High School for Girls in Mumbai where she fell in love with books. Most of her recesses were spent reading in nooks and corners of the school building with interesting friends like Lucy Pevensie, Charlie Bucket, and Pippi Longstocking.
After graduating with a degree in Commerce from the University of Bombay, Mahtab decided to pursue Hotel Management. She spent two years training at the Oberoi School of Hotel Management in Delhi before transferring to Mumbai to work at Oberoi Towers. She was the Front Office Manager which gave her the opportunity to meet lots of interesting people and work under tremendous pressure, especially during the holiday season when the hotel was full. Not entirely happy with the hotel industry, Mahtab worked in the credit card indu
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