Poonachi Or the Story of a Black Goat

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ISBN 13 : 9789386850966
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (59 download)

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The Story of a Goat

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Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802147526
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Story of a Goat written by Perumal Murugan and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fantastical . . . Through the thoughts of a rare black goat and the couple who adopt it, readers witness famines, death, and moments of beauty.” —National Geographic Longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature As he did in the award-winning One Part Woman, Perumal Murugan explores a side of India that is rarely considered in the West: the rural lives of the country’s farming community. He paints a bucolic yet sometimes menacing portrait, showing movingly how danger and deception can threaten the lives of the weakest through the story of a helpless young animal lost in a world it naively misunderstands. As the novel opens, a mysterious stranger offers a farmer in Tamil Nadu a black goat kid who is the runt of the litter, surely too frail to survive. The farmer and his wife take care of the young she-goat, whom they name Poonachi, and soon the little goat is bounding with joy and growing at a rate they think miraculous for such a small animal. Intoxicating passages from the goat’s perspective offer a bawdy and earthy view of what it means to be an animal and a refreshing portrayal of the natural world. But Poonachi’s life is not destined to be a rural idyll—dangers can lurk around every corner, and may sometimes come from surprising places, including a government that is supposed to protect the weak and needy. Is this little goat too humble a creature to survive such a hostile world? “The title character of Murugan’s elegant new novel is indeed a joy . . . through Poonachi’s tale we are reminded how much bonds us with the animal world.” —USA Today

Poonachi

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Publisher : Red Panda
ISBN 13 : 9789389648317
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (483 download)

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Download or read book Poonachi written by Perumāḷmurukan̲ and published by Red Panda. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Goat Thief

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Publisher : Juggernaut Books
ISBN 13 : 9386228491
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (862 download)

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Book Synopsis The Goat Thief by : Perumal Murugan (N. Kalyan Raman Tr.)

Download or read book The Goat Thief written by Perumal Murugan (N. Kalyan Raman Tr.) and published by Juggernaut Books. This book was released on 2017-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perumal Murugan is one of the best Indian writers today. THE GOAT THIEF is a selection of his ten best stories focused on men and women who live in the margins of our society.

One Part Woman

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Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802146732
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book One Part Woman written by Perumal Murugan and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “intimate and affecting” novel of an Indian couple’s quest for a child that sparked national conversations about caste and female empowerment (Laila Lalami, New York Times Book Review). Set in South India during the British colonial period, One Part Woman tells the story of Kali and Ponna, a married couple unable to conceive. The predicament is of major concern for their families—and the crowing amusement of Kali’s male friends. From making offerings at different temples to circumambulating a mountain supposed to cure barren women, Kali and Ponna try everything to solve the problem. But a more radical plan is required. The annual chariot festival, a celebration of the god Maadhorubaagan, who is part male and part female, may provide the answer. On the eighteenth night of the festival, the rules of marriage are relaxed, and consensual sex between unmarried men and women is overlooked, for all men are considered gods. The festival may be the solution to Kali and Ponna’s problem, but it soon threatens to drive the couple apart as much as to bring them together. Wryly amusing and deeply poignant, One Part Woman is a powerful exploration of a loving marriage strained by the expectations of others, and an attack on the rigid rules of caste and tradition that continue to constrict opportunity and happiness. Longlisted for the National Book Award

Pyre

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Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802159346
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Pyre written by Perumal Murugan and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the author of One Part Woman: “A haunting story of forbidden love set in Southern India that illustrates the cruel consequences of societal intolerance.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review 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. But in a world filled with thorns, their love may not be enough to keep them safe.

Seasons of the Palm

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Publisher : Tara Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9788186211823
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book Seasons of the Palm written by Perumāḷmurukan̲ and published by Tara Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A literary masterpiece (translated from the Tamil) that opens a door to the poignant world of India's 'untouchables'.

Estuary

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ISBN 13 : 9789389648164
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Estuary written by Perumāḷmurukan̲ and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late at night, Kumarasurar's phone rings shrilly. His teenage son is calling. What could he want? A seemingly simple demand torments Kumarasurar, who fears it might put his finances--and perhaps his son's life--in jeopardy. As a father's anxieties unravel, his memories undermine his self-worth and imaginary scenes of damnation taunt him. Estuary brings alive the different ways--absurd and endearing by turns--in which a man and his young son navigate the contemporary world. In the process, it peels back the layers of Kumarasurar's loneliness: the hurt of a married man whose wife cares only for the happiness of their child, the endless monotony of an office job, and the struggle of the salaried middle-class to give their children the best chance of success. Perumal Murugan's latest novel, his first in an urban setting, is also a razor-sharp parody of everything from e-commerce to the fitness industry, art appreciation to political manipulation, cram schools to social networks. Through a meditative exploration of a father's emotional landscape, Murugan tells of a world wrecked by unchecked consumerism and an obsession with growth, where technology overrides common sense and degrees don't guarantee education. And, with characteristic tenderness, he also weaves in a way to redemption. --Goodreads summary

Animalia Indica

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Animalia Indica written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Unveiling India

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351187950
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Book Synopsis Unveiling India by : Anees Jung

Download or read book Unveiling India written by Anees Jung and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-10-14 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The women in this book are not extraordinary or famous, and yet their stories and testimonies, narrated here by one of India's best-known women journalists, provide a passionate, often deeply touching, revelation of what it means to be a woman in India today. The women tell of marriage and widowhood, unfair work practices, sexual servitude, the problems of bearing and rearing children in poverty, religion, discrimination, other forms of exploitation ... Yet they also talk of fulfilling relationships, the joys of marriage and children, the exhilaration of breaking free from the bonds of tradition, ritual, caste, religion ... Interwoven with all this is the story of one woman's journey--of how Anees Jung, the author, brought up in purdah, succeeded in shaking off the restricting influences of her traditional upbringing to become a highly successful, independent career woman, still a comparatively rare phenomenon in India. As such, the book is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the women of India-the silent majority that is now beginning to make itself heard.

Jasmine Days

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Publisher : Juggernaut Books
ISBN 13 : 9386228742
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book Jasmine Days written by Benyamin (Shanaz Habib) and published by Juggernaut Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sameera Parvin moves to an unnamed Middle Eastern city to live with her father and her relatives. She thrives in her job as a radio jockey and at home she is the darling of the family. But her happy world starts to fall apart when revolution blooms in the country. As the people's agitation gathers strength, Sameera finds herself and her family embroiled in the politics of their adopted land. She is forced to choose between family and friends, loyalty and love, life and death. Jasmine days is the ... story of a young woman in a city where the promise of revolution turns into destruction and division."--Provided by publisher.

Current Show

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Publisher : Penguin Random House India
ISBN 13 : 9386495139
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (864 download)

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Book Synopsis Current Show by : Perumal Murugan

Download or read book Current Show written by Perumal Murugan and published by Penguin Random House India. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Skims the murky world of dispossessed youth while sporting a spare, swift style’—The Hindu Sathi is a young soda-seller in a run-down cinema hall in a small town. Ill-paid and always weary, he finds relief from everyday tedium in marijuana and his friends—vulnerable, desperate young men who work around the movie hall. An intense and tender friendship with one of the men sustains Sathi, until a train of events casts the meagre certainties of his days and nights into disarray. Slick, visceral and startlingly inventive, Current Show unfolds in a manner that simulates rapid cinematic cuts. Murugan’s keen eye and crackling prose plumb the dark underbelly of small-town life, bringing Sathi’s world and entanglements thrillingly to life.

Sniper's Eye

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Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (484 download)

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Book Synopsis Sniper's Eye by : Mainak Dhar

Download or read book Sniper's Eye written by Mainak Dhar and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You figure your movie date won't end well when the man in front of you gets shot. I'm out on a date with my girlfriend, and everything is perfect...till that shot. A high-calibre bullet. No apparent sound. A rifle with a suppressor. A sniper in the middle of a mall! As the body count mounts and I get sucked in deeper into the chaos that is unleashed by that shot, I find myself confronting many deadly enemies. To survive, and save those I care about most, I need to tap into a bloody past I thought I had left behind. I find myself on a kill list put online by terrorists and being thrown together with a man whom I need to work with if we are to save ourselves and countless others. The problem is that man is sworn to kill me. In a world where the young and poor kill and die in conflicts started by the old and rich, I and my unlikely companion finally discover the thin line that separates a mere killer from a hero. This is our story...

Em and the Big Hoom

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101637854
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Book Synopsis Em and the Big Hoom by : Jerry Pinto

Download or read book Em and the Big Hoom written by Jerry Pinto and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The devastatingly original debut novel from a winner of the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. “Profoundly moving . . . I cannot remember when I last read something as touching as this.” —Amitav Ghosh, author of The Glass Palace First published by a small press in India, Jerry Pinto’s debut novel has already taken the literary world by storm. Suffused with compassion, humor, and hard-won wisdom, Em and the Big Hoom is a modern masterpiece, and its American publication is certain to be one of the major literary events of the season. Meet Imelda and Augustine, or—as our young narrator calls his unusual parents—Em and the Big Hoom. Most of the time, Em smokes endless beedis and sings her way through life. She is the sun around which everyone else orbits. But as enchanting and high-spirited as she can be, when Em’s bipolar disorder seizes her she becomes monstrous, sometimes with calamitous consequences for herself and others. This accomplished debut is graceful and urgent, with a one-of-a-kind voice that will stay with readers long after the last page.

Body and Blood

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9353578124
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Body and Blood written by Benyamin and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best Indian writer of our times -- MOHAMMED HANIF When Midhun is injured in a hit-and-run incident, no one can anticipate that the minor scrapes and wounds he has sustained will suddenly turn fatal. But that is exactly what happens, and after his death, his organs are donated and end up saving several lives. Soon, however, his friends Rithu and Ragesh and his lover Sandhya begin to suspect there is more to the story than meets the eye. As they delve deeper into the chain of events and the people behind the religious fellowship they are all a part of, they discover that answers are hard to come by, justice elusive and closure next to impossible...Following the lives of men and women caught in a web of criminally orchestrated accidents and medically induced comas, Benyamin's latest novel Body and Blood is by turns introspective and thrilling -- a meditation on faith and God that also holds up a mirror to the power and corruption of organized religion.

A PERSISTENT SOUL

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Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 1644292386
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (442 download)

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Download or read book A PERSISTENT SOUL written by Manoj Patil and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘’In the Western countries, first they are strangers, then they become friends, then they become more than friends, then they become strangers again’’ A Persistent Soul is a story of Sagar and Kimberly who love each other but they understand ‘love’ differently. She is 23, he is 24. She is beautiful and he is an average looking guy. She is British and he is an Indian. They both are students. He is simple, optimistic, enthusiastic and ambitious. She is hard-headed, unyielding, unforgiving and intolerant but both are heartwarming and exhilarating. Accidently they meet, become friends and fall in love. She is a right girl for him and he is a right guy for her but is the 'time' right for both of them? A middle-class Indian boy, who is new to the Western world, does not understand the Western theory of love. He falls in love with a girl and decides to spend the rest of the life with her. Kimberly is an over thinker and wants to take every step slowly. She has secrets which she doesn’t want to tell anyone and he is the one who wants to know everything. The author Manoj Patil takes us through an incredible journey of love and loss with his debut novel 'A Persistent Soul'. The story of the journey of their love is described beautifully provide vivid sketches of beautiful Newcastle town that form the milieu for their romance. Kimberly's complex character and her complicated past, Western life and culture sensitively brought out through the eyes of a middle-class Indian who persists through storms and rough seas to unite with her spirited lover.

Rising Heat

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Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 9353058384
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Rising Heat written by Perumal Murugan and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Selvan's life is no longer the same. His family's ancestral land has been sold in order to make way for the construction of a housing colony. Now the verdant landscape of his childhood has been denuded, while Selvan and his family are compelled to move to much smaller lodgings. In the ensuing years, as the pressures of their situation simmer to a boil, Selvan observes his family undergo dramatic shifts in their fortunes as greed and jealousy threaten to overshadow their lives. Murugan's first novel, which launched a splendid literary career, is a tour de force. Now translated for the first time, it poses powerful questions about the human cost of relentless urbanization in the name of progress.