Current Show by Murugan, Perumal

Current Show (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143428350)

Vendor: Perumal Murugan
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
$19.95
$19.95
$19.95
Subtotal: $19.95
Current Show by Murugan, Perumal

Current Show

$19.95
Current Show by Murugan, Perumal

Current Show

$19.95
Format: Paperback
Description
Description
x

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.

'[Murugan's] characters, dialogues and locales are unerringly drawn and intensely evocative . . . A superb writer'-Indian Express
'The most accomplished of his generation of Tamil writers'-Caravan



Author: Perumal Murugan
ISBN-10: 0143428357
ISBN-13: 9780143428350
Publisher: India Penguin
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2017
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
By Perumal Murugan
By Perumal Murugan
x

Perumal Murugan is the star of contemporary Tamil literature, having garnered both critical acclaim and commercial success for his work. An award-winning writer, poet and scholar, he has written several novels, short-story collections, poetry anthologies and works of non-fiction. Some of his novels have been translated into English to immense acclaim, including Seasons of the Palm, which was shortlisted for the Kiriyama Award in 2005, and One Part Woman, his best-known work, which was shortlisted for the Crossword Award and won the prestigious ILF Samanvay Bhasha Samman in 2015. Murugan has also received awards from the Tamil Nadu government as well as from Katha Books.
V. Geetha is a feminist historian and publisher who writes in English and Tamil on contemporary Tamil society, particularly on caste, gender, education and labour. She translates poetry and fiction from and into both languages. Geetha is with Tara Books, Chennai.

Recently Viewed Products