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Rajanarayanan, Ki.

 
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Synopsis

The celebrated folklorist Ki. Rajanarayanan (1923-2021) spent over 80 years collecting the weirdest and wildest tales of the karisal mannu, the black-soil region around Kovilpatti, Tamil Nadu, India. 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!

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Revue de presse

The stories are great fun to read, told in suitably simple and colloquial English- A hugely refreshing change for bhasha fiction in English, from India. --Renuka Narayanan, Hindustan --Renuka Narayanan, Hindustan Times

The stories are great fun to read, told in suitably simple and colloquial English- A hugely refreshing change for bhasha fiction in English, from India. --Renuka Narayanan, Hindustan Times

The stories are great fun to read, told in suitably simple and colloquial English- A hugely refreshing change for bhasha fiction in English, from India. --Renuka Narayanan, Hindustan Times

Biographie de l'auteur

Ki Rajanarayanan has spent three quarters of a century collecting the weirdest and wildest tales from the karisal mannu, the scorched, drought-stricken land of Tamil Nadu.

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