Ecstasy And Other Stories: Birth Centena


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STORIES THAT TOUCH YOUR HEART BY ONE OF THE BEST MODERN TAMIL WRITERSSpecial Birth Centenary EditionThi. Janakiraman (ThiJa) was one of the best Tamil prose writers of the twentieth century. The stories in this specially curated collection offer a view of the modernizing Tamil countryside as well as the changing landscape of human relationships. A man builds his reputation based on lies to meet the expectations of his father a woman desiring tenderness from her abusive husband finds release in an unexpected way a music teacher is mocked for taking on a lower-caste student and a drowning cat becomes the centre of attention during funerary rituals. In these and other tales Janakiraman reaches inside the depths of the human heart and lays bare its contradictory pulls. Through their brilliant translation Professor David Shulman and the late S. Ramakrishnan reveal the perfect pitch of Janakiramans precise exquisite Tamil. They deftly capture his fluid sensitive style in idiomatic English seamlessly rendering the subtle inflections of the original. Prof. Shulmans insightful and affecting introduction places Janakiraman within the long continuum of Tamil literature. There is also a short beautiful memoir on him written by his daughter Uma.
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