26 Thu 10.15 AM
The Folly, Amethyst
Whites Road
Next to
Corporation Bank
Royapettah,
Chennai 600 014
IWA Book club
invites you to a discussion on the book, “ One Part Woman”, by Permual Murugan, one of India’s most prolific literary
writers. Winner of the prestigious ILF Samanvay Bhasha Samman for
writing in Indian languages, this book also won the Translation
Prize from India’s National Academy of Letters.“Murugan’s
unsurpassed ability to capture Tamil speech lays bare the
complex organism
of the society he adeptly portrays: the double entendres men
use towards Kali affirm their own masculinity as much as they mock
him; women employ their only freedom, the freedom of speech, to put
other women in their place; and most of all, the unsparing barbs
of a judgmental, caste-ridden, patriarchal society alienate a
couple longing to be like any other. Aniruddhan Vasudevan’s
idiomatic translation preserves the mood of the original, and
serves as a constant linguistic reminder that, as readers in
English, we are
but visitors to this realistic pre-independence Tamil world. For a
book that earned its author death threats and was burned by mobs, One
Part Woman is a surprisingly tranquil, sensuous read.” - The Guardian
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