Saroja and Kumaresan are in love. After a hasty wedding, they arrive in Kumaresan s village, harbouring the dangerous secret that their marriage is an intercaste one, likely to anger the villagers should they learn of it. Kumaresan is confident that all will be well. He naively believes that after the initial round of curious questions, the inquiries will die down and the couple will be left alone. But nothing is further from the truth. The villagers strongly suspect that Saroja must belong to a different caste. It is only a matter of time before their suspicions harden into certainty and, outraged, they set about exacting their revenge. With spare, powerful prose, Murugan masterfully conjures a terrifying vision of intolerance in this devastating tale of innocent young love pitted against chilling savagery.

Pyre

Literature & Fiction

Perumal Murugan

Aniruddhan Vasudevan (Trans.)

Genre Fiction

Penguin/Hamish Hamilton

One Part Woman

Contemporary

Pushkin Press

Ill-paid and always tired, Sathi, a young soda-seller, finds relief from the tedium of the everyday in marijuana and his friends—-vulnerable, desperate young men who work around a movie theatre. This is life lived in the shadows of show business, sustained by a petty and tiring commerce in sex and money.Stylishly written in a manner that mimics the rapid cuts and forward movement of Indian cinema.

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Tara Books

<div> Translated from the Tamil, Seasons of the Palm tells the story of an "untouchable" lad in bondage to a paternal yet powerful landlord. He struggles to keep a fragile happiness, but endless work and a stubborn hunger are never too far away. Relentless in its portrayal of the everyday humiliations of untouchablility, the novel is yet lyrical in its evocation of the grace with which the oppressed come to terms with their dark fate. </div>

Seasons of the Palm

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Poonachi Alladhu Oru Vellattin Kathai (Tamil Edition)

Teen & Young Adult

Kalachuvadu Pathipagam

Four Strokes Of Luck

Juggernaut

Maadhorubaagan, 'One Part Female', is a contemporary Tamil novel set in the small town of Tiruchengodu in central - western Tamil Nadu. The work revolves around the lives of a young, childless couple, kaali and Ponna, whose hopes, longings and prayers for a child converge on the hill in Tiruchengode, that houses Ardhanareeswara, the form that the Hindu God Shiva takes where he is One part Female.

Maathorupagan (Tamil Edition)

Pookuzhi (Tamil Edition)

Arthanari (Tamil Edition)

Short Stories & Anthologies

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