Fire Bird: Winner of the Jcb Prize for Literature 2023 - Couverture souple

Murugan, Perumal

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0143472518 ISBN 13 : 9780143472513

Editeur : Penguin Random House India, 2025

Synopsis

Fire Bird is a masterfully crafted tale of one man's search for the elusive concept of permanence. Muthu has his world turned upside down when his father divides the family land, leaving him with practically nothing and causing irreparable damage to his family's bonds. Through the unscrupulous actions of his oncerevered eldest brother, Muthu is forced to leave his onceperfect world behind and seek out a new life for himself, his wife and his children. In this transcendental novel, Perumal Murugan draws from his own life experiences of displacement and movement, and explores the fragility of our fundamental attraction to permanence and our ultimately futile efforts to attain it. Translated from the nearly untranslatable Aalandapatchi, which alludes to a mystical bird in Tamil, the titular fire bird perfectly encapsulates the illusory and migratory nature of this pursuit. Fire Bird is a thoughtprovoking and beautifully written exploration of the human desire for stability in an everchanging world.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Perumal Murugan (Author)Perumal Murugan is the star of contemporary Tamil literature. An award-winning writer, poet and scholar, he has garnered both critical acclaim and commercial success for his vast array of work. His novels have been translated into English to immense acclaim, including Current Show, Pyre, Seasons of the Palm, which was shortlisted for the Kiriyama Prize in 2005, and One Part Woman, his best-known work, which was shortlisted for the Crossword Award, longlisted for the inaugural National Book Award for Translation and won the prestigious ILF Samanvay Bhasha Samman. A Lonely Harvest and Trial by Silence-his two ingenious parallel sequels to One Part Woman-were shortlisted for the JCB Prize for Fiction 2019. A Lonely Harvest was also longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2019. Songs of a Coward is a collection of his poetry written in exile. His debut novel was published in English as Rising Heat in 2020, nearly three decades after it was first published in Tamil.Janani Kannan (Translator) Janani Kannan is a US-based architect, translator, singer and marathon runner. She enjoys translating Tamil novels and short stories and most recently translated Rising Heat, Perumal Murugan's very first novel. Her interests also include collecting and chronicling anecdotes, recipes and architectural nuggets from Tamil culture

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Random House India
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0143472518
• ISBN 13: 9780143472513
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 279
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Penguin; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/; ; CL MODESTO LAFUENTE 41; Madrid; Madrid; Espagne