Mama Tandoori

A wonderfully humorous family portrait by Spiegel bestseller author Ernest van der Kwast. The father has no doubts: it will be a girl. The birth announcement for Eva van der Kwast is already at the printer. Then, much to the parents' dismay, in a clinic in Bombay in 1981, little Ernest comes into the world, setting off a complicated relationship between son and parents. In his autobiographically tinted novel, Ernest van der Kwast presents a colorful array of characters. Foremost is his mother, a tyrant with the heart of a lioness. A woman of iron will, almost absurd thoroughness, and despite all her strength, filled with a deep sadness for her disabled son Ashirwad. She is the one where all the threads of the story converge.