Pyre
Perumal Murugan
Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
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 to build a new life together. But they are harbouring a dangerous secret: Saroja is from a different caste than Kumaresan, and if the villagers find out, they will both be in grave peril.Faced with venom from her mother-in-law, and questions from her new neighbours, Saroja tries to adjust to a lonely and uncomfortable life, while Kumaresan struggles to scrape together enough money for them to start over somewhere new. Will their love keep them safe in a hostile world?
Kundenbewertungen
rural India, One Part Woman, The Story of a Goat, Arundhati Roy, Tamil literature, caste violence, Amit Chaudhuri, Kamila Shamsie, Ali Smith, Tamil, Rebecca Solnit, Pyre, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, George Orwell, Rohinton Mistry, caste intolerance, Home Fire, caste, translated fiction, The God of Small Things, political fiction, Meera Kandasamy, National Book Award, Pankaj Mishra, A Fine Balance