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      • Tamarind History
        Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        March 1996

        Tamarind History

        by Sundara Ramaswamy

        With a narrative breadth never before seen in Tamil fiction, Sundara Ramaswamy's Tamarind History inaugurated a new era in Tamil letters. Its meditations on the loss of beloved places; the shared experience of the past; and the meaning of togetherness amid struggle, ambition and enmity, all flow from the life of an aged tamarind tree that stands at the centre of a bustling town. This town's wild places - their mythic pasts still treasured by an old wanderer and the youth who listen to his tales-are stripped away as politicians commit to modernization in the name of progress. Yet the town remains filled with life and beauty, even as it is irrevocably damaged. Tamarind History first published in 1966 has sold more than a 125,000 copies in Tamil in this millennium and is probably the highest selling literary fiction even today. Critic K.M.George cited this novel while listing Indian language writers deserving the Nobel Prize.

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      • Estuary
        Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

        Estuary

        by Perumal Murugan

        From the author of the bestselling Poonachi, or the Story of Black Goat, shortlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature and the Hindu Prize in 2018. On answering the phone, Meghas would say, 'Solluppa'- tell me, Appa-his only word through the entire call. On some days, he said it gently; on still others, he barked it out; and there were days when he seemed to speak it with hate and resentment. A single word could be a storehouse of emotions, each utterance stirring a different one. It could unleash a torrent, a flash flood, a stream, a wave. Kumarasurar would instantly guess Meghas's mood from his intonation and fortify himself to counter it.

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      • Arena
        Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

        Arena

        by Si. Su. Chellappa

        Vaadivaasal, a masterful account of powerrelations, describes the traditional rituals of bull-taming and captures the life-and-death struggle between animal and man.A celebrated work of short fiction by Chellappa, Vaadivaasal is perhaps the firstfictional account in Tamil on Jallikattu, the indigenous bull-fighting sport of TamilNadu with a history of two thousand years. Jallikattu is both a heroic drama and a sport. The taming of a bull trained to gore its human adversary in the ring is the crux of this still popular sport. Chellappa, who grew up in a region of southern Tamil Nadu where bull-fighting is a hallowed tradition, depicts the dangerous and absorbing struggle between man and animal. Rich in ethnographic detail, this is a work marked by brevity and conciseness.Vaadivaasal is the narrow gate through which bulls are released during Jallikkattu, a rural sport held annually in certain parts of Tamil Nadu. Young men pounce upon the bulls and try to overpowerthem. Besides the bravado attached to it, the material attraction is the prize money and gold tied to the horns of the animals. The translation has been done by the internationally renowned translator.

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      • Poonachi or The Story of A Black Goat
        Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

        Poonachi or The Story of A Black Goat

        by Perumal Murugan

        An old man is watching the sunset over his village one quiet evening when a mysterious stranger turns up with the gift of a day-old goat kid. Thus begins the story of Poonachi, the little black goat whose fragility and fecundity become cause for wonderment to all those around her.From the eagle that swoops down on her to the wildcat that attempts to snatch her away within days of her arrival, the old man and his wife struggle to keep their tiny miracle alive. Before they know it, Poonachi has become the centre of their meagre world and the old woman and she are inseparable.Life is not easy for any of them - farmers, goatherds or goats. The rains play truant, the gods claim their sacrifices, and the forest waits to lure unwary creatures into its embrace. Wrought by the imagination of a skilful storyteller, this delicate yet complex story of the animal world is about life and death and all that breathes in between. It is also a commentary on our times, on the unequal hierarchies of class and colour, and the increasing vulnerability of individuals who choose to speak up rather than submit to the vagaries of an ambitious if incompetent state.

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      • The Muddy River
        Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

        The Muddy River

        by P.A. Krishnan

        The Muddy River tells and re-tells the story of Ramesh Chandran, a bureaucrat caught up in the machinations of Assamese politics and public sector corruption in his quest to rescue a hapless engineer kidnapped by militants. As Chandran bumbles along, he encounters the engineer’s wife, who is a pocket-sized battle-axe; a cynical police officer; a venerable Gandhian; and Anupama, another engineer torn between professional integrity and her love for the north-eastern Indian state of Assam. While the rescue drama reaches its climax, Chandran also exposes a massive financial scandal in his company and pays the price for ignoring warnings that he might push too far for an unashamedly corrupt society’s comfort. An aspiring writer, Chandran weaves the events of this time into a novel, while attempting to come to terms with his own marriage in the aftermath of the death of their only child. But how much does Chandran understand other people’s truths and motivations? And how much does his wife, Sukanya, know about the events of the novel? Multi-layered and complex, The Muddy River blurs the boundaries between the story and storyteller, victims and victimizers, keeping the reader guessing till the very end.

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      • The Tiger Claw Tree
        Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

        The Tiger Claw Tree

        by P.A. Krishnan

        The Tigerclaw Tree, originally publishedby Penguin Books India in 1998, is a cult classic. It follows the shifting fortunes of four generations of a TenkalaiIyengar (a Brahmin sub-sect of high orthodoxy) family as each member confronts his or her own role in their familylegacy of idealism, political involvement, and, ultimately, betrayal and loss. ‘Reminds one of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude’The Statesman

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      • Women, Dreaming
        Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

        Women, Dreaming

        by Salma

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      • On a River's Bank
        Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

        On a River's Bank

        by A. Madhavan

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      • Tomorrow is One More Day
        Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

        Tomorrow is One More Day

        by G. Nagarajan

        This novella by this maverick writer is centred around one eventful day in the life of a small-scale operator, fix-it man, pimp and procurer, Kandan. It offers a reading of the seamy and temporality, human desire and the possibility of love in the harsh and often violent underworld of a small town in Tamil Nadu.

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      • Water
        Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

        Water

        by Ashokamitran

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