{"product_id":"karunya-by-nachanok-ladys-9789815362404","title":"Karunya","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA story of Lalana, who is a mother, a man—narrated through the sense of motherhood and otherness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy dear child,\u003cbr\u003e\nIf your father has left an indentation on my ring finger,\u003cbr\u003e\nAnd you stretch marks on my stomach,\u003cbr\u003e\nHe has likewise left a permanent engraving.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe story of Lalana, a transgender man who gave birth to a daughter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGoing back in time to her daughter's first birthday, at the dining table where her husband and daughter blow out the birthday candle together, she finds out that she is a man in the body of a woman; she finds out that she is, in truth, a man.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd once he admits to his husband that he has changed, his answer is—he can't embrace what Lal is, and he needs time to come to terms with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThen, during that time of change, Lal meets a man.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe has a house on Song Wat road, and that house becomes Lalana's refuge. From the day they met by chance onwards, Lal has visited him again and again, for reason after reason, for carnal desires and bodily passions that he has for him, and for the compassion that he shows Lal—shows Lal's male self.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47781822595308,"sku":"9789815362404","price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9789815362404-karunya.jpg?v=1782291414","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/karunya-by-nachanok-ladys-9789815362404","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}