Pyre / Perumal Murugan ; translated from the Tamil by Aniruddhan Vasudevan.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Tamil Publisher: New York : Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2022Edition: First Grove Atlantic paperback editionDescription: 202 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0802159338
- 9780802159335
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | PERUMALM | Available | 33111010786271 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
From the author of One Part Woman and The Story of a Goat , both longlisted for the National Book Award for Translation, comes a poignant and startling novel about love, caste, and intolerance
Profiled in both the New Yorker and the New York Times , Perumal Murugan is one of India's highest selling and most respected literary writers, and Pyre is perhaps his most beloved work. Saroja and Kumaresan are young and in love. After meeting in a small southern Indian town where Kumaresan works at a soda bottling shop, they quickly marry before returning to Kumaresan's family village, where they hope to build a happy life together. But they are harboring a terrible secret: Saroja is from a different caste than Kumaresan, and if the villagers find out, they will both be in grave danger. Faced with venom from her mother-in-law and questions from her new neighbors, Saroja tries to adjust to a new lonely and uncomfortable life, while Kumaresan struggles to scrape together enough money for them to start over somewhere new. Will their love keep them safe in a world filled with thorns? In evocative prose, Perumal Murugan masterfully conjures a moving tale of innocent young love pitted against chilling violence."First published in Tamil as Pookkuzhi by Kalachuvadu Publication Pvt. Ltd, Nagercoil in 2013."--copyright page.
Saroja and Kumaresan, a young married couple, return to Kumaresan's family village where they hope to build a happy life. But they have a dangerous secret: Saroja is from a different caste than Kumaresan, and if the villagers find out, they will both be in danger. Will they--and their marriage--survive?