ECSTASY AND OTHER STORIES: Birth Centenary Edition

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  • RELEASE DATE : NOVEMBER 2021
  • Author: Thi. Janakiraman
  • Pub: November 2021
  • ISBN: 9780670095964
  • Price: Rs. 499/-
  • Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Extent: 240

ABOUT THE BOOK

STORIES THAT TOUCH YOUR HEART BY ONE OF THE BEST MODERN
TAMIL WRITERS
Special Birth Centenary Edition
Thi. Janakiraman (ThiJa) was one of the best Tamil prose writers of the
twentieth century. The stories in this specially curated collection offer a
view of the modernizing Tamil countryside as well as the changing
landscape of human relationships. A man builds his reputation based on
lies to meet the expectations of his father, a woman desiring tenderness
from her abusive husband finds release in an unexpected way, a music
teacher is mocked for taking on a lower-caste student, and a drowning
cat becomes the centre of attention during funerary rituals. In these and
other tales, Janakiraman reaches inside the depths of the human heart
and lays bare its contradictory pulls.

Through their brilliant translation, Professor David Shulman and the late
S. Ramakrishnan reveal the 'perfect pitch' of Janakiraman's precise,
exquisite Tamil. They deftly capture his fluid, sensitive style in idiomatic
English, seamlessly rendering the subtle inflections of the original. Prof.
Shulman's insightful and affecting introduction places Janakiraman within
the long continuum of Tamil literature. There is also a short, beautiful
memoir on him, written by his daughter Uma.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ThiJa or Thi. Janakiraman (1921-1982) was a central figure in the
lively Tamil literary scene of the mid-twentieth century. Some would
say he was the most gifted of all who were writing at that time. His
descriptions of life in rural and small-town Tamil Nadu are almost
without parallel. He published over a hundred exquisite short stories,
nine novels, two novellas, four travelogues, and occasional essays on
literary topics. In 1979 he won the Sahitya Akademi Award.

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