TAMARIND HISTORY

SKU: BK 0068131

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  • Author : Sundara Ramaswamy
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin India
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 220 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780143065616

About the Book

With a narrative breadth never before seen in Tamil fiction, Sundara Ramaswamy's Tamarind History inaugurated a new era in Tamil letters. Its meditations on the loss of beloved places, the shared experience of the past and the meaning of togetherness amid struggle, ambition and enmity, all flow from the life of an aged tamarind tree that stands at the centre of a bustling town. This town's wild places - their mythic pasts still treasures by an old wanderer and the youth who listen to his tales - are stripped away as politicians commit to modernization in the name of progress. Yet the town remains filled with life and beauty even as it is irrevocably damaged.

About the Author

One of the most versatile and innovative of Tamil writers, a great modernist and a dazzling stylist, Sundara Ramaswamy (1931–2005) wrote in many genres - poetry, novel, short story, play, personal essay and literary criticism - making real interventions in Tamil writing. Each of his three novels is recognized as path-breaking and he also edited and published a notable literary magazine, Kalachuvadu, which became a forum for new writing and literary debate.

 

Blake Wentworth teaches Tamil and south Indian literary culture at the University of California, Berkeley. While his prime scholarly interest lies in the literary works of premodernity, he is also a keen enthusiast of contemporary Tamil writing and film. Currently, he is at work on a book that studies the genre of ulā, one of the most popular poetic models of the Tamil literary genres. Wentworth serves as the general editor for the translation of the Ramayana of Kamban, to be published by the Murty Classical Library of India. He is also the translator of the first book, Bālakāṇḍam.

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