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1 online resource (169 pages) |
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"Fantastical... Through the thoughts of a rare black goat and the couple who adopt it, readers witness famines, death, and moments of beauty." -- National Geographic Longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature As he did in the award-winning One Part Woman, Perumal Murugan explores a side of India that is rarely considered in the West: the rural lives of the country's farming community. He paints a bucolic yet sometimes menacing portrait, showing movingly how danger and deception can threaten the lives of the weakest through the story of a helpless young animal lost in a world it naively misunderstands. As the novel opens, a mysterious stranger offers a farmer in Tamil Nadu a black goat kid who is the runt of the litter, surely too frail to survive. The farmer and his wife take care of the young she-goat, whom they name Poonachi, and soon the little goat is bounding with joy and growing at a rate they think miraculous for such a small animal. Intoxicating passages from the goat's perspective offer a bawdy and earthy view of what it means to be an animal and a refreshing portrayal of the natural world. But Poonachi's life is not destined to be a rural idyll -- dangers can lurk around every corner, and may sometimes come from surprising places, including a government that is supposed to protect the weak and needy. Is this little goat too humble a creature to survive such a hostile world? "The title character of Murugan's elegant new novel is indeed a joy... through Poonachi's tale we are reminded how much bonds us with the animal world." -- USA Today"-- Provided by Freading. |
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| Subject |
Goats -- Fiction.
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Social classes -- India -- Fiction.
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Rural families -- India -- Fiction.
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Tamil Nadu (India) -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction.
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Drama.
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| Subject |
FICTION / Animals.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Kalyan Raman, N., translator.
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| ISBN |
9780802147523 (epub) |
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9780802147516 (print) |
| Standard No. |
9780802147523 |
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