In a forest, a deer : stories / by Ambai.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: New Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.Description: x, 207 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780198080015
- 9780198080015
- 0198080018
- 894.8113 23 AMB
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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General Books | CUTN Central Library Literature | Fiction | 894.8113 AMB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 30157 |
Ambai, one of the finest modern Tamil short-story writers, is much read, discussed and written about, and loved for the wit, innovative story-telling, and lyrical grace of her writing. Breaking traditional modes of expression in terms of language and content, In a Forest, a Deer recounts the saga of Tangam Athai, whose husband remarried because she could not bear him a child and Chinthiru's journey to the forest alongside the mythological tale of Sita's exile to underscore Chinthiru's unique search for self-identity. Winner of the Hutch Crossword Book Award 2006, this collection is an enduring testimony of the ideology and belief that Ambai's writings affirm-the need to know and be in touch with a stable or 'grounded' self that allows fluidity and change in modern times of travel, dislocation, and exile.
AUTHOR'S NOTE; TRANSLATOR'S NOTE; INTRODUCTION; JOURNEY 1; JOURNEY 2; ONE AND ANOTHER; CAMEL RIDE; DIRECTION; GLOW; FIRST POEMS; PARASAKTI AND OTHERS IN A PLASTIC BOX; VAAGANAM; IN A FOREST, A DEER; UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT; A SAFFRON-COLOURED GANESHA ON THE SEASHORE; A ROSE-COLOURED SARI WOVEN WITH BIRDS AND SWANS; WRESTLING; A RAT, A SPARROW; JOURNEY 3; FOREST; A MOVEMENT, A FOLDER, SOME TEARS; GLOSSARY
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Translated from the Tamil.
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