Fiction Shortlist
Nimita’s Place
In India 1944, Nimita Khosla yearns to attend university to pursue engineering, but her parents want her to marry. As she accepts her fate, religious upheaval splits the country and displaces her family.
In 2014, her granddaughter, molecular biologist Nimita Sachdev, emigrates to avoid an arranged marriage. Arriving in Singapore, she faces rising anger against immigrants and uncertainty about her new home.
Two women walk divergent paths but face the same quandaries: who are we, and what is home?
Author
Akshita Nanda
Akshita Nanda was born in Pune, India in 1979 and has lived in Singapore since 1995. She has a BSc (Hons) from the National University of Singapore and knows what to do with radioactive viruses. She has been in publishing since 2002 and joined The Straits Times in 2007, where she currently writes about the arts. Nimita’s Place is her first novel.