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Author Perumāḷmurukaṉ, author.

Title One part woman / Perumal Murugan ; translated from the Tamil by Aniruddhan Vasudevan.

Publication Info. New York : Black Cat, 2018.
©2013

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Fiction  FICTION MURUGAN    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  F PERUMALM    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Adult Fiction  PERUMALMURUGAN    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  F PERUMALMURUKAN    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Adult Fiction  F PERUMAL-MURUKAN    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Adult Fiction  MURUGAN    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult Fiction  F PERUMALMURUKAN    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Adult Fiction  FIC PERUMALMURUGAN    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  F-Perumāḷmurukaṉ    Check Shelf
Edition First Grove Atlantic paperback edition.
Description 245 pages ; 21 cm
Summary "Selling over 100,000 copies in India, where it was published first in the original Tamil and then in this celebrated English translation, One Part Woman has become a cult phenomenon in the subcontinent, jump-starting conversations about caste and female empowerment. Set in rural South India during the British colonial period, it follows a couple, Kali and Ponna, who are unable to conceive. Kali and Ponna try everything to please their parents and have a child, including circumambulating a mountain supposed to cure barren women, but none of the offerings or rituals helps. A more drastic plan is required, so Kali and Ponna's mothers agree that Ponna should go to the annual chariot festival, a celebration of the half-male, half-female god Maadhorubaagan. On the eighteenth night of the festival, there is an immense carnival, during which the rules of marriage are relaxed, and consensual sex between unmarried men and women is overlooked, for all men are considered gods. But rather than bring them together, this scheme threatens to drive the couple apart. Wryly amusing and deeply poignant, One Part Woman is a powerful exploration of a loving marriage strained by the expectations of others"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Spouses -- Fiction.
Infertility -- Fiction.
India -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Novels.
Added Author Aniruddhan Vasudevan, translator.
Added Title Maadhorubaagan. English
ISBN 9780802128805 (pbk.)
0802128807 (pbk.)
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