Plastic Emotions

Download or read book Plastic Emotions written by Shiromi Pinto and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2019-07-20 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plastic Emotions is inspired by the life of Minnette de Silva-a forgotten feminist icon and one of the most important figures of twentieth-century architecture. In a gripping and lyrical story, Shiromi Pinto paints a complex picture of de Silva, charting her affair with the infamous Swiss modernist Le Corbusier and her efforts to build an independent Sri Lanka that slowly heads towards political and social turmoil. Moving between London, Chandigarh, Colombo, Paris and Kandy, Plastic Emotions explores the life of a young, trailblazing South Asian woman at a time of great turbulence across the globe.