The Story of a Goat

A farmer in India is watching the sun set over his village one quiet evening when a mysterious stranger, a giant man who seems more than human, appears on the horizon. He offers the farmer a black goat kid who is the runt of the litter, surely too frail to survive. The farmer and his wife take care of the young she-goat, whom they name Poonachi, and soon the little goat is bounding with joy and growing at a rate they think miraculous.But Poonachi's life is not destined to be a rural idyll: dangers lurk around every corner, and may sometimes come from surprising places, including a government that is supposed to protect the weak and needy. Is this little goat too humble a creature to survive such a hostile world?With allegorical resonance for contemporary society and examining hierarchies of caste and colour, The Story of a Goat is a provocative but heartwarming fable from a world-class storyteller who is finally achieving recognition outside his home country.

Product details

• Authors: Perumal Murugan, Murugan Perumal
• Assisted by: N. Kalyan Raman (Translation), The Story of a Goat N. Kalyan Raman (Translation)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781782275718
• ISBN: 978-1-78227-571-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), India, Rural communities, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales