Writer, poet salma's second novel. Salma's novel is filled with the stories of personal life of women, which the outer world has not much knowledge of. A melancholic world and how one overcomes it with time is portrayed realistically in the novel. The language and this world are new and might not be pleasant to conservative minds. But when the chains of conservative oppression are broken, there is a flood of narratives that are unleashed. The novel is one such story.
'Chittansaritam', which stirs with aesthetic imagery unknown to today's generation, records not only the story of several generations but also the culture, values, and above all, the tragic biography of the Jaffna Tamil community. Every character, including the wind and the moon, is sculpted with elegance.In its narrative breadth and mastery, 'Chittansaritam' compels us to compare it with Chinua Achebe's 'Things Fall Apart'.
Thi.Janakiraman wrote this novel as a series on the magazine 'Kanaiyazhi'. It was published as a book posthumously. Poet Sukumaran the editor Thi.Janakiraman's collected short stories says Thi.ja was never tired of celebrating humanity in his works. Humans are the central themes of his works, bound in their situations and filled with emotions. It's an unique novel among his other novels. The theme is abstract and the abstractness makes it more intriguing for the reader. The novel is about an dangerous attempt by Rangamani, who is determined to continue her family heritage by a blood related scion instead of adopted children. Tricks, Prayers, Intimacy all are entwined in a story told in the enchanting writing style of Thi.Ja. The novel speaks of pity, lust and spirituality all in an intimate language.
'Kaanal Desam' is a new novel by writer, doctor Noel Nadesan. A story that happens amidst the three decades of war in Sri Lanka. It talks about historical truths hidden for the sake of war and its ideals. Where historians hesitate to state truths, fiction fills that role. The possibilities of fiction, and the courage to undertake it are utilised in this novel to find a path to the truth.
Devakanthan's new novel 'Kanthil Paavai' is a story that unfolds between 1800 - 2015. His last novel 'Kanavuchirai' was a critically acclaimed work. 'Kanthil Paavai' is a story of four generations, as mental disorders hurt them, with war deepening the wounds, and chasing them to the edge.The novel entwines separate stories of the four generations with a single thread. It's a stream that runs backwards.Kantharodai is considered as the mythical capital of Yaazhpanam. With the city as its backdrop, the novel makes an epic journey on myth and history.
In a village where basic amenities like education, medicine, roads and drainage haven't made their marks yet, the lives of the poor, uneducated people who live by placing their trust on the land, go through a drastic change. Following that, the close links between the people and the very foundation of the village, are shattered. This novel is not just the story of a lost village in the Kongu region of western Tamil Nadu. It is also a historical document that reminds us of lost cultural elements.
Thi.Janakiraman's Marapasu has created discussions, controversies since the 1970s. Marapasu was a direct reflection of his he narrates his life experience and that experience strengthens the idea of the novel further. When feminism talks were becoming popular in all over world, Marapasu was the first creation in Tamil which discussed about it. The main character of this novel Ammini is trying to hold each and every creation of world with love. She is an unforgettable character of modern Tamil literature. She is as fresh as a rain drop and as ancient as a river. She as free as the wind and she wants to take shelter inside feathers of a nest. She yearns for relationships and at the same time she needs extreme loneliness. She is the ideal imaginary character as well as the imperfect real character. This contradiction makes this novel very interesting.
This is Yuvan Chandrasekar's seventh novel. A reader familiar with Yuvan's body of work would be able to identify a similarity on all his novels - that all of them are travel stories. 'Oorsutri' (Wanderer) is not an exception to that. But where travel happens in other stories as an event or with a movie, here all the possibilities are explored. The journey that the wanderer Seethapathi undergoes is not merely one of geographical locations, but of relationships, incidents and backgrounds. More important, it is through time. This is a journey without beginning or end, but entirely captivating and no less of an adventures.
'Vidamabanam' is artist Srinivasan Natarajan's debut novel. In this work, the author attempts all possible forms of what we call a 'novel'. At the same time, with satire as his tool, he pokes fun at them too. A freedom given by that cruel satire of establishments makes for the novel's structure.Writer Sukumaran praises the novel for using the freedom to the fullest extent. It satirises established values, aesthetics, history, and individual thought. It dethrones vote bank politics, art dialogues, caste pride, progressiveness and cultural pride. The novel is a criticism of everything around us.
We could have seen many women responding with an embarrassing smile to our question,"children...?". Only they can feel the pain behind that smile. Aside from the individual longing fora child, the stigmas imposed on masculinity/femininity in the family and society over infertilitycan multiply this pain. The unspeakable agony of physical and mental trauma caused by thetreatments for child birth is a separate story. Lavanya Sundarrajan's Kayampoo gives the readerthe experiences of many dimensions of the pain of infertility that the general society is notaware of. The story narrates Nandini's tragic journeys in both inner and outer worlds. Lavanyatells the story with sensitive and mature approach. The narrative does not heap complaints onanyone. One of the elements of solid fictional work is to make the readers feel the experiencesexpressed in the work as their own. 'Kayambu' is one such work.
Tharunizhal' is the first work by R. Sivakumar, who has gained significant attention amongst avid readers through his reliable Tamil translation of works from other languages.For most writers, the first novel is a retelling of their life experiences, especially the memories of the period in which their individual personalities took shape. This novel too is an attempt by the author to capture the personal and social experiences of his youth and look at them from today's perspective. While recounting one's past, the urge to present oneself in a heroic and ambitious way is extremely compelling and often overpowering. That this novel does not fall into this trap, but relates those experiences in the atmosphere of the moment is the first sign of the novel's greatness. The 70s and 80s laid the foundations for several new directions and pathways. They triggered changes in the personal, social and cultural life and environment of the people. The effects were felt in the Tamil context as well. That this novel attempts to reconstruct this past in a nuanced and comprehensive manner is its second sign of greatness.R. Sivakumar narrates his experiences in a simple, direct and intimate manner that fully absorbs readers; this realism is the ultimate sign of greatness in this novel.
Malar Manjam was the second novel of Thi. Janakiraman, who has been praised as one of the greatest Tamil writers. Like his debut, this novel was also published as a series in Sudesamithran weekly magazine. This novel brought him to the attention of many readers, with his fascination with human drama and relentless discourse on male-female relationships. With themes like polygamy and unorthodox love, it was much talked about following its publication, and is still relevant today. A man searches for solace in spirituality, burdened by his four marriages. A woman, born out of one of those relationships, calmly establishes her rights, a beautiful novel is woven out of this narrative threads. The novel's contemporariness lies with the character of Pali, who struggles and chooses between a person of her choice and an arranged marriage. In a way, breaking the traditions of her time, Pali paved the way for Thi. Janakiraman's much-beloved women characters to come.
Amirtham is the first novel of Thi. Janakiraman, a pioneer celebrated for taking the literary form to new heights. It was published in 'Giraama Oozhiyan' magazine as a series in 1944, and was published as a book for the first time in 1948. The novel announces the arrival of a great writer, and bears resemblance to some of his great works that followed. The language of this novel may have aged, but the context remains relevant. Equal gender relations, mutual admiration, the Thanjavur dialect and all the unique features of Thi.Ja's exemplary works are present in this too.
Writer, poet sukumaran's second novel is on the life of a mughal princess. Jahanara begum was the eldest daughter of Mughal king shah jahan and his beloved queen mumtaz mahal. She had the political expertise to advice her father at the age of fourteen, and has learnt hindu puraanas, persian books and the Quran. She knew history, poetry, dance, music and architecture among other things. She was a dreamer and had plans to carry out her dreams. She had elephants,horses, ships and wealth. She had power. But she was also denied a freedom that gives meaning to all this things. The historical injustice as she was a woman is portrayed in this excellent novel, through her own perspective, and that of her friend a hijra from shahjahan's court.
Childhood friends Sowmyan and Ruban's paths have split away. When they meet again, Sowmyan is thrown into a wild turn of events, which feels like a repetition of his family history. Pettai happens around chennai's chindadripettai. Revolving around two generations of a family living in modern day chindadripettai, it starts with the historical foundation of the place as a town. A logical formation of livelihood in the land, and individual lives not bound by any logic but of fiction run parallel in this racy novel. People, their language, beliefs, values, and the change with time are also recorded with selected details without hindering the narrative. Chennai's marginal lives are rarely portrayed in fiction with such intensity. Thamizprabha's debut novel gains from his engaging writing style and the wealth of characters and landscape.
Set against the backdrop of the temporary phenomenon of general lockdown, PerumalMurugan's novel deals with some of the permanent problems of human life. There are twojourneys in the novel. One is a road trip and another is the inner journey through life. Bothtravel in parallel lines influencing each other in the narrative. The novel examines the values oflove against the backdrop of the inevitable nature of real life. The novel takes a closer look atthe nature of love, its transformations and the pains it causes in the context of various elementsthat try to penetrate the natural attraction between a man and a woman. It signifies thestrength of love that cannot be controlled by social values and customs. The novel unfolds fromthe perspective of the youth of today's generation and appropriately accommodates the viewsof the generations of yesteryear.
'India 1944-48', a novel by pioneer Tamil writer Ashokamitran, is about two lives - before and after the Indian independence. Published first as two separate novellas 'Bombay 1944', 'India 1948', the work has been now compiled into a single novel as per the author's wish. Reclaiming memories blurred by the unstoppable flow of time, Ashokamitran paints men and their struggles from two varied and important time periods of the nation.
An endless war began when the English tried to establish their power in India, between them and the maraikaayar communities of the western coast in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The English tried to steal away trade and sea supremacy from the maraikaayars. Maraikayar's fight for their rights was a story of valour and miracles. As the religion of such valorous history is now trying to expand its power, where are the people who played major roles in that history? What is meant by rule of religion? Thoppil Muhammed Meeran's Kudiyetram, (settlement) tackles this questions, as modern times happen with their roots on this history. The book is a bridge between fiction and history.
This is a modern Tamil novel, portraying the problems of modern Tamil life. Starting with a murder, the narrative continues on four different threads, following the perspectives of: Chinese person, a Japanese person, an Indian Tamilian and a Singapore Tamil woman. Every chapter starts with a quote from French writer Derrida and the narrative of the chapters investigates them. In a storytelling style that is new to Tamil literature, the author gives a new life to the Indian mythological story of Agaligai. Singapore and identity dysphoria are at the heart of this refreshing novel. Sidhuraj Ponraj's writing style reminds one of a magician's performance.
There have been various works in Indian languages on the changes of values during the post-independence era in socio-political spheres. Indira Parthasarathy, who used to deal with theanxiety of shattered dreams, has made the hard realities of post-independence period as thecentral point of this novel. Indira Parthasarathy, who is adept at portraying the life of urbaneducated, middle-class people with its psychological elements, records the changing socio-political environment of India through the life of a young man. An enjoyable read in a fluentstyle, this novel has a critical view as its undercurrent.
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