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      • Tha
        Fiction

        Tha

        A Novel of Multi Dimensional Frames

        by Konangi

        Konangi's third novel Tha is a postcolonial tour de force. It is yet another hermetic book  of subterranean tales branching out in poetic delineation of the Invisible Historical moments incorporating various artists’ writers’ decisions actors freedom fighters rulers and anarchists of the bygone times. It is an epic novel woven around with Tamil alphabet  த, standing as a secret code resonating with Tanjore, Thanammal etc., It is also a meta-fiction teasing readers expecting their active participation in decoding the tales within the novel. Tha is made up of Konangi's subtle historiographic sense and celebrated Travels around India endowing him with a nostalgic and encyclopaedic vision followed by his encounter with various people, places, stories, events and records in the making of its Epic frame.

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      • A God in Warsaw (Vārcāvil oru kaṭavuḷ )
        Fiction

        A God in Warsaw (Vārcāvil oru kaṭavuḷ )

        A Stunning Novel that Captures the Warsaw Days of a South Indian

        by Tamilavan

        The main character Chandran, born to a woman who was accidentally saved from Burma as a child by a Tamilian during an exodus during the Second World War and brought up as his own daughter, goes to Warsaw. He, a computer engineer, a product of modern India, finding solace from his personal tragedy of the death of his wife due to fire, meets a lot of Polish characters and the scenario of which forms the social and philosophical backdrop of this novel where the east meets the west in a different way. This novel having been set in the early part of this century in Europe gives, amidst the narratives of tragic and magic details of migration and an Indian-medicine practicing Brahmin god-man who during his illegal transportation is jailed in  Germany, a clue to understanding the modern meaning of globalization.

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      • The Detective Story G.K Wrote (Ji.Kē. Eḻutiya marma naval)
        Fiction

        The Detective Story G.K Wrote (Ji.Kē. Eḻutiya marma naval)

        A Shattering Work of Detective Fiction of Religious Conflicts

        by Tamilavan

        Tamil language is replete with detective stories ever since the thirties. This novel is structured as a detective story as the title shows where a Buddhist monk is the detective as philosophical and religious questions are raised then and there appropriately as required for such a novel. The locale of this novel is a Borgesian forgotten city abandoned in history for which only an ancient Tamil text Chilappathikaram gives a reference. Thus this novel works on many planes of signification where meaning is not only organized but also disrupted in the true style of postmodern fiction. A subtext runs parallel to the main story of this novel questioning who might have written this novel. In sum, this novel is an exemplary indication of what happens in the modern milieu of Tamil fiction writing, of course in a language as ancient as Sanskrit.

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      • The Courtyard Spreading Out As You (Nīyākap Paṭarum Muttṟam)
        Fiction

        The Courtyard Spreading Out As You (Nīyākap Paṭarum Muttṟam)

        Anthology of Poems

        by Shameela Yoosuf Ali

        Distinguished by the use of compelling and beautiful imagery, Shameela's poems weave a magical world of their own.   She says in one of her poems, My childhood is gazing curiouslydangling in the window bars of the bygone days... My adolescence is pushing itself up and downin the long swing of memory... The lunacy which lures us in each ageThe diaries filled with scribbles each year Memories to me Are a floating moon in theglistening water in the well. My eyes become young fishand swim deeper and deepergliding into a dreamy world... Shameela's poems evolve around the aroma of her native place, the nostalgia of the bygone days, the unfolding melancholy of losing identity, the aches of the uprooted life in foreign soil, and the depths of entrancing love.

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      • Whirling On The Saloon’s Chair (Salūṉ nāṟkāliyil suuḻaṉṟapaṭi)
        Fiction

        Whirling On The Saloon’s Chair (Salūṉ nāṟkāliyil suuḻaṉṟapaṭi)

        Seventy Tales of Wide Ranging Themes and Narrative techniques

        by Konangi

        This is a representative anthology of the First 70 stories penned by  Konangi spanning the first two decades of his literary career. This collection Comprises of stories depicting the livelihood of farmers, blacksmiths, washermen and other subaltern people and their trials and tribulations. It also throws light on unique stylistic and narratological experimentation performed by Konangi which anticipated and inaugurated his Avatar as a novelist. Several short stories are endowed with a rich sense of the agrarian life of Tamil Nadu followed by poetic references to the socio-cultural life of the Tamils. Translators can enjoy bounteous choices offered by this quintessential anthology covering a wide range of themes and treatment of stories followed by glimpses of the significant transition of Konangi's style from realism to magical realism.

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      • Water Boomerang (Nīrvaḷari)
        Fiction

        Water Boomerang (Nīrvaḷari)

        An Epic Novel on the Ancient Tamil Life and Culture

        by Konangi

        Nīrvaḷari is the fourth novel of Konangi. It comprises 21 chapters inspired by Konangi's spectacular vision of the infinitesimal moments of perennial ancestrality of the Tamils. The novel has resonances with Cilappatikaram, the great epic of Tamil language. Konangi has composed beautiful chapters on Islamic architecture, antique cities and their people, imaginary meetings between  Dostoevsky and Van Gogh and several other poetic Odysseys towards surreal landscapes. Neer Valari offers a hermetic and encyclopedic fusion of painting, music, sculpture, architecture, anthropology, literature and culture composed with the musical mythic - poetic prose of Konangi which has enthralled his readers for many decades offering them the surreal dimensions of Tamil Prose.

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      • Kūkai (The Owl)
        Fiction

        Kūkai (The Owl)

        Literary Award Winning Author: Contesting Marginality of Tamil Dalits

        by Cho. Dharman

        Kūkai means Owl. It is a night bird. Its eyes are blind in the daylight and it is unaware of its strength. Owl does not fancy migration. It will continue to live and die in the same place. It will live in a tree hollow in fear and desperation. If other birds happen to see the owl, they would attack pecking and chasing and eventually leading to its death. This novel is written symbolising owl to Dalits. The cruelties and sufferings faced by these so-called untouchables are aesthetically narrated in this novel.

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      • Patimūṉāvatu maiyavāṭi (The Thirteenth Burial ground)
        Fiction

        Patimūṉāvatu maiyavāṭi (The Thirteenth Burial ground)

        Craked Mirror of Religious Seens from Literary Award Winning Author

        by Cho. Dharman

        Patimūṉāvatu maiyavāṭi Sea, prison, forest, aboriginal people, transgenders- the writers know how difficult it really is to create a work combining all these elements. We can add Hindu monasteries and Christian hermits to this fusion. The convents of nuns are mystical. The author had lived with them for many years. He narrates the lives of Christian nuns and monks and their secret world in a beautiful language.

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      • Nīrppaḻi (Water-blame)
        Fiction

        Nīrppaḻi (Water-blame)

        Sixty Eight Stories from Literary Award Winning Author

        by Cho. Dharman

        In the space of modern Tamil literature, Cho Dharman is actively writing for the last  fourty years. Nīrppaḻi - This anthology of Short stories is a handpicked collection from his dynamic array of work.Writing about inconstant elements of children, mentally challenged people, forests, birds, sea, aborigines, prisons is an arduous task. Cho. Dharman has mastered it.  *** This anthology was selected as the best short story collection of the year, for two consecutive years. It was also honoured with the National Katha award. Most of the stories in this collection have been translated to English, Hindi and Malayalam.

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      • Tūrvai
        Fiction

        Tūrvai

        Sahitya Akademi Award Winning Author

        by Cho. Dharman

        The Novel is woven around how the chemical fertilizers and pesticides ravaged our yield and the soil making them toxic, in the name of green revolution paving way for the downfall of the agriculture which was once self-sufficient and self-reliant. The pure Tamil word ‘Thoorvai’  means what causes the one which was already there to disappear.

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      • The Book Of Primordial Stories (Pitirā)
        Fiction

        The Book Of Primordial Stories (Pitirā)

        A Palimpsest Novel of Primordial Tales

        by Konangi

        Pitirā is Konangi's second novel. For chapters of the novel comprises five Tamil landscapes serving as foundations of several micro-narratives and tales portraying the various aspects of ancient Tamil Life. There are interesting descriptions of rituals and cults which enrich the cultural heritage of a race. The novel is brimming with very moving poetic accounts of the agrarian and the pastoral civilization. Konangi's angst-ridden melancholic prose explores the multifaceted and the rich indigenous cultural heritage of an ancient race on the planet Earth. As the title itself suggests, the novel is a compendium of various narratives of primal myths portrayed like paintings of bygone ages and their specters haunting the symphonic visions of Konangi.

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      • Men About whom it is said so (Ēṟkaṉavē sollappaṭṭa maṉitarkaḷ)
        Fiction

        Men About whom it is said so (Ēṟkaṉavē sollappaṭṭa maṉitarkaḷ)

        A Novel of Extraordinary Narrative Developed from Tamil Christian Folklore

        by Tamilavan

        Drawing much from the repertoire of the ancient Tamil folklore this novel details a small town in the southern part of Tamil speaking India with its superstitions mixed Christian faith of characters who are always referring to books to verify their actions (Of course not the Bible ) of  past, and   for solving their modern problems and thus the reader is not able to differentiate whether what they read is parts of a dead fiction already written, may be by god or by the unknown hands of present times. This story gives a feel of aTamilised magical realist fervor, the first narration of its kind in Tamil language, which paved the way for many successors. This novel created a furore in Tamil when first published.

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      • The Shadows Cast On History (Carittirattil paṭinta niḻalkal)
        Fiction

        The Shadows Cast On History (Carittirattil paṭinta niḻalkal)

        A Most Astonishing Fantasy Ever Written in Tamil with Modern Political Tones

        by Tamilavan

        This is the unbelievable history of a Queen of an imaginary country who has the ability to see the world and things closing her eyes while her husband the Raja looks green in colour, capable of giving birth to children. One of their sons, who is a poet can present himself in two places at a time. His brother, whose name is Light on the Mountain, plays the dual role of the persecutor and the persecuted in an underground movement, the members of which abducted him during when he was a child. This novel of belief and disbelief structured into one whole aims to evoke an aesthetic pleasure of a children's literature and at the same time a Folk narration of surrealistic tone of fun and wonder. Also, this unusual novel is conceived as a parody of the Tamil Politics of the nineties and well appreciated both by readers and critics.

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      • Vessel Of Void (Pāḻi)
        Fiction

        Vessel Of Void (Pāḻi)

        Mystical and mythical explorations of the Primal Void

        by Konangi

        Pāḻi, the first novel of Konangi is an intricate textual Labyrinth incorporating several historical and cultural elements invaluable for the appreciation of Tamil culture and thought. Konangi discovered his unique mythopoetic style in this novel. Pāḻi, is made up of Seven books, each book is a world in itself narrating the flux of cosmic events based on  Nomadology, Buddhism, Jainism, ancient Indian sculptures, paintings, tribal culture etc., speculating on the forgotten and hidden aspects of Tamil culture revealing the antique vision of a poet. the novel is a  hermetic cosmogony inaugurating the celebrated Mytho-poetic style of Konangi, composed in a harmonious antique Tamil tapping on the intrinsic musicality of the language

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