The Greatest Tamil Stories Ever Told

By Sujatha Vijayaraghavan, Mini Krishnan

The Greatest Tamil Stories Ever Told

By Sujatha Vijayaraghavan, Mini Krishnan

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Specifications

Genre

Fiction

Print Length

312 pages

Language

English

Publisher

Rupa Publications Co.

Publication date

1 January 2021

ISBN

9789390652297

Weight

0.99 pound

Description

The Greatest Tamil Stories Ever Told showcases some of the best short fiction to emerge out of Tamil Nadu, dating from the last century to the present day. Two of the earliest stories included here are Subramania Bharati’s ‘The Story of a Crow Learning Prosody’, a satirical tale about the exaltation of language, and ‘Kalki’ Krishnamurthy’s ‘The Governor’s Visit’, about how bigwigs in little places pandered to the British rulers during the time of the Raj. While some stories in this volume wrestle with the idea of public justice, as in Father Mark Stephen’s ‘Penance’ and Sa. Kandasamy’s ‘The Slaying of Hiranya’, others, such as Ambai’s ‘Journey 4’, hide secrets that could destroy lives and relationships if they are ever revealed.


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