Ваша оценкаFrom the author of One Part Woman and The Story of a Goat, both longlisted for the National Book Award for Translation, comes a new novel about love, caste, and violence.
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 life together. They remain hopeful that the villagers will welcome them with open arms, but they ...
Издательство:
ISBN:
9780802159335
Год издания:
2022
Язык:
Английский
224 pages, Paperback
Возрастные ограничения:
18+
Критика
JANE WALLACE, THE ASIAN REVIEW OF BOOKS
"A novel with a title like Pyre is unlikely to have a happy ending. Nevertheless, the journey towards this inevitable outcome delivers a disturbing insight into human bigotry and brutality whose application extends far beyond the novel's treatment of inter-caste marriage in contemporary Tamil Nadu ... The translation from the original Tamil relies on simple English and the occasional American idiom yet comprehensively captures the claustrophobic atmosphere in which the lovers exist."
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