Description
In a village world where caste dictates belonging, a young couple’s love becomes a dangerous act of defiance. When Kumaresan and Saroja choose each other across social boundaries, their marriage draws them into a widening storm of hatred, surveillance, and communal pressure that threatens to consume everything they build. Woven with the intensity of a Romeo-and-Juliet fable, the novel explores how identity can be weaponized—and how ordinary tenderness collides with inherited violence. Perumal Murugan’s lyrical, village-rooted storytelling brings a stark, human immediacy to themes of love, dignity, and the cost of resisting a system designed to keep people apart.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Books India PVT, Limited
Published Jan 1, 2017
224 pages
ISBN: 9780143429012
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Details
First Published
2016
Language
eng
Translation
From: tam
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Pyre by Perumal Murugan.