Pyre

Saroja and Kumaresan are young and in love. After meeting in a small southern Indian town, where Kumaresan works at a soda bottling shop, they quickly marry before returning to Kumaresan's family village to build a new life together. But they are harbouring a dangerous secret: Saroja is from a different caste than Kumaresan, and if the villagers find out, they will both be in grave peril.Faced with venom from her mother-in-law, and questions from her new neighbours, Saroja tries to adjust to a lonely and uncomfortable life, while Kumaresan struggles to scrape together enough money for them to start over somewhere new. Will their love keep them safe in a hostile world?

Product details

• Authors: Perumal Murugan
• Assisted by: Aniruddhan Vasudevan (Translation), Vasudevan Aniruddhan (Translation)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9781782278627
• ISBN: 978-1-78227-862-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary