Cereus blooms at night 1996 is the first novel published by film maker artist and writer shani mootoo the novel recounts the story of an old lady named mala ramchandin through the narrative of tyler a nurse at paradise alms house. Cereus blooms at night by shani mootoo literature fiction isbn two gentlemen bring a slip of a cereus plant for her and tyler looks after it and gets the gardener to plant it some time later the two men return to visit mala and tyler starts to find out more about malas life one of the men is malas age ambrose boyie was at school with mala he made monthly deliveries of food to . Cereus blooms at night beginnt etwas schwerfalliger als shani mootoos meisterwerk he drown she in the sea die ersten 20 30 seiten aus dem leben des pflegers tyler lassen die sprachliche brillanz die bildhaftigkeit und die leichtigkeit mit der mootoo szenen zeichnet vermissen. Each bloom on this beautiful cactus flower has just one night a year to show off this time lapse movie captures blooms opening and closing video by chris k. Cereus blooms at night by mootoo shani publication date 1998 topics male nurses caribbean area fiction nursing home patients caribbean area fiction male nurses nursing home patients caribbean area fiction caribbean area publisher london granta books collection inlibrary printdisabled internetarchivebooks digitizing sponsor kahle austin foundation contributor internet