{"product_id":"current-show-perumal-murugan-9780143428350","title":"Current Show","description":"\u003cp\u003eSathi 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.\u003cbr\u003eSlick, visceral and startlingly inventive, \u003ci\u003eCurrent Show\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'[Murugan's] characters, dialogues and locales are unerringly drawn and intensely evocative . . . A superb writer'-\u003ci\u003eIndian Express\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'The most accomplished of his generation of Tamil writers'-\u003ci\u003eCaravan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Perumal Murugan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0143428357\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143428350\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e India Penguin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Perumal Murugan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48517270470911,"sku":"9780143428350","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d0852fee-248d-46af-bd5a-5bdaa37fa0c8.jpg?v=1778731037","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/current-show-perumal-murugan-9780143428350","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}