A Place To Live

Innumerable strands of ethnic, regional and universal experiences are woven together in A Place To Live, a collection of fine short fiction spanning four decades - 1960-1990 - in which the short story emerged as the definitive genre of modern Tamil literature. Twenty-nine famous names are represented here - from Rajanarayanan to Paavannan and many others who have encapsulated the joys, sorrows and peculiar challenges of life in Tamil Nadu. Taken together, these stories represent a certain world view in which old ideas of honour and prestige, and the attitude of resignation - to fate and to social hierarchies - are yielding place to an ethic of struggle and strategic compromise. The language itself is transformed in the process, churning up a new idiom that loses none of its freshness or vitality in translation. dilip kumar vasantha surya.htm

ISBN: 0143031597
Author: Kumar, Dilip
Published by: Penguin Books India
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