
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...

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There are very few literary works in Tamil that show how our society response to love marriages as well as inter caste marriages. But such marriages happening every now and then before our eyes. Perumal Murugan's novel describes the problems experienced by two lovers who marry...

Soroja 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...



