Description
Late at night, Kumarasurar’s phone rings—his teenage son calling with a request that seems small, yet threatens to unravel everything he has built. As his worries spiral, the novel moves between the present and his memories, exposing the loneliness beneath a middle-class life of office routines, financial pressure, and the constant fear of failing the next generation. In a sharply observed urban world, Perumal Murugan turns everyday systems—consumer culture, social media, “self-improvement” industries, and political performance—into both satire and social diagnosis, asking what happens when growth becomes a substitute for meaning. Blending absurdity with tenderness, *Estuary* traces a father’s emotional landscape toward redemption, where love, shame, and conscience collide in the spaces between what we buy, what we believe, and what we owe.
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Published Jan 1, 2020
ISBN: 9789389648164
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First Published
2020
Language
tam
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Estuary by Perumāḷmurukan̲.