Böcker av Perumal Murugan

Perumal Murugan has created the novels 'Arthanari' and 'Alavayan' from two different angles following 'Mathorubagan'. These are not successive parts of a novel, but rather are complete and separate from each other. Both start at the same point but travel in different directions. 'Arthanari' speaks to the relationship problems caused by the male's sense of possession over the female. The novel goes on to describe the way in which the resulting values pervade human minds.

Set against the backdrop of the temporary phenomenon of general lockdown, PerumalMurugan's novel deals with some of the permanent problems of human life. There are twojourneys in the novel. One is a road trip and another is the inner journey through life. Bothtravel in parallel lines influencing each other in the narrative. The novel examines the values oflove against the backdrop of the inevitable nature of real life. The novel takes a closer look atthe nature of love, its transformations and the pains it causes in the context of various elementsthat try to penetrate the natural attraction between a man and a woman. It signifies thestrength of love that cannot be controlled by social values and customs. The novel unfolds fromthe perspective of the youth of today's generation and appropriately accommodates the viewsof the generations of yesteryear.

"ONE AMAZING STORY. TWO DIFFERENT ENDINGS. AT THE END OF PERUMAL MURUGAN'S TRAILBLAZING NOVEL ONE PART WOMAN, READERS ARE LEFT ON A CLIFFHANGER AS KALI AND PONNA'S INTENSE LOVE FOR EACH OTHER IS TORN TO SHREDS. WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT TO THIS BELOVED COUPLE? IN A LONELY HARVEST-ONE OF TWO INVENTIVE SEQUELS THAT PICK UP THE STORY RIGHT WHERE ONE PART WOMAN ENDS-PONNA RETURNS FROM THE TEMPLE FESTIVAL TO FIND THAT KALI HAS KILLED HIMSELF IN DESPAIR. DEVASTATED THAT HE WOULD PUNISH HER SO CRUELLY, BUT CONSTANTLY HAUNTED BY MEMORIES OF THE HAPPINESS SHE ONCE SHARED WITH KALI, PONNA MUST NOW LEARN TO FACE THE WORLD ALONE. WITH POIGNANCY AND COMPASSION, MURUGAN WEAVES A POWERFUL TALE OF FEMALE SOLIDARITY AND SECOND CHANCES."

FROM ONE OF INDIA'S MOST RESPECTED AND BESTSELLING WRITERS COMES A SEARING AND POIGNANT NOVEL ABOUT LOVE AND INTOLERANCE IN A SMALL VILLAGETWICE LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD'With tender rage, one of India's most powerful living writers breathes life into an age-old tale of forbidden passion' Nilanjana Roy'Pyre is extraordinary. Rarely does literature reveal so much with so little' Nayomi Munaweera'A major India writer' New York Times______Saroja and Kumaresan are young, in love and in danger. They meet in a small southern Indian town, where Kumaresan works in a soda bottling shop, and quickly marry before returning to Kumaresan's family village. But they are harbouring a dangerous secret: they belong to different castes, and if the villagers find out they will both be in grave peril.Faced with venom from her mother-in-law, and pointed new questions from her new neighbours, Saroja struggles to adjust to a lonely and uncomfortable life. Kumaresan throws himself into building a new soda business, hoping to scrape together enough money for them to start over somewhere new. But as vicious whispers encircle the couple, will their love be enough to keep them safe?______PRAISE FOR PYRE'So tense it leaves you gasping for air' Ellen Barry, New York Times'Pyre glows with power... and adds immeasurable value to contemporary Indian literature... a hard and glittering gem of a story' The Hindu'A haunting story of forbidden love set in Southern India that illustrates the cruel consequences of societal intolerance' Kirkus Reviews, starred review'Piercing detail... The simple, elegant prose of Vasudevan's translation ranges from poetic to suspenseful... Murugan deserves worldwide recognition' Publishers Weekly, starred review

The vision he saw in his dream, a world in ruins and bereft of women-was that going to come true soon? If he could get married, he would live the way people lived in the old days. He wanted to have at least ten children, and he wanted them all to be girls. The world should never again witness the sorrow of a man like him. It might be a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, or at least a piece of land, must be in want of a wife, but Marimuthu's path to marriage is strewn with obstacles big and small. Inward-looking, painfully awkward, desperately lonely and deeply earnest, Marimuthu is fuelled by constant rejection into an unforgettable and transformative matrimonial quest. Enter a series of marriage brokers, horoscopes, infatuations, refusals and 'bride-seeing' expeditions gone awry, which lead Marimuthu to a constant re-evaluation of his marital prospects. But this is no comedy of manners, and before long we find ourselves reckoning with questions of agricultural change, hierarchies of caste, the values of older generations and the grim antecedents of Marimuthu's poor prospects, as decades of sex-selective abortion have destroyed the fabric of his community and its demographics. Perumal Murugan's Resolve is both a cultural critique and a personal journey: in his hands, the question of marriage turns into a social contract, deeply impacted by the ripple effects of patriarchy, inequality and changing relationships to land and community. In this deceptively comic tale that savagely pierces the very heart of the matter, translated with deft moments of lightness and pathos by Aniruddhan Vasudevan, Perumal Murugan has given us a novel for the ages.

A vibrant fable of marriage, caste and social convention from an important Indian writer