Where Are You Going, You Monkeys?: Folktales From Tamil Nadu

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Author: Ki. Rajanarayanan
Translated by Pritham K. Chakravarthy

9788190605649 | PB | pp. 264 | 2009 | Blaft Publications

This is a delightful collection of weird, wild and naughty tales of the karisal mannu, the black-soil region around Kovilpatti, Tamil Nadu.

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Ki. Rajanarayanan spent three quarters of a century collecting the weirdest and wildest tales of the karisal mannu, the black-soil region around Kovilpatti, Tamil Nadu.

This book contains a gallery of jealous husbands and conniving goddesses, pious sparrows and randy mice, jewel-crazy girl ghosts and angry star demons, as well as a chapter of “naughty & dirty” folktales!

“This delightful collection fully lives up to—enhances—Blaft’s young but confident standing.” —Vijay Nambisan in the Deccan Herald

Additional information

Author:

Ki. Rajanarayanan
Translator: Pritham K. Chakravarthy

ISBN:

9788190605649

Publisher:

Blaft Publications

Binding:

Paperback

Pages:

264

Year of Publication:

2009

Edition:

First

Condition:

New

Country of Origin:

India

About the Author

Ki. Rajanarayanan (b. 1922), popularly known as Ki. Ra., is a powerful writer and teller of tales rooted in the soil of Tamil Nadu, and has been a recipient of the prestigious Kalaimamani and Sahitya Akademi awards. His 1958 short story Mayamaan is often seen as marking the beginning of the Golden Age of modern Tamil literature. Veering away from the European influences which characterised much of the fiction from the Tamil revivalist period, Ki. Ra. chose to relate tales in the spoken dialect of the land in which he was born.

He lives in Pondicherry with his wife, Ganavathiammal.

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