I'm alive . . . for now: Novel - Couverture souple

Imayam

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9356873682 ISBN 13 : 9789356873681

Editeur : Dhanesh Kumar Jain, 2023

Synopsis

[This novel] is a running commentary on the existential journey of one family - a youth in his teens and his father and mother - as they traverse the maze of modern medicine in search of a cure for his deadly kidney disease. I hesitate to use the word "fiction", because this is certainly not make-believe. The author speaks not just as a witness but as an actual participant. Nor does classifying it simply as "non-fiction" do justice to the depth and range of its factual content - and those facts are not only about how kidneys function, how their dysfunction is treated, how transplants take place, and how they respond, and fail, but about the medical and scientific processes, and the financial and administrative structures involved. A range of human interactions is conveyed with both candour and dispassion. No voyeurism, no sentimentality.'

VASANTHA SURYA, Writer

'The highest human quality in Imayam's writing is empathy. His empathy is completely devoid of sentimentality and this he conveys by giving his protagonist the voice to speak. This novel deserves close reading, textual analysis, and extensive scholarly commentary, so that it can take its place in the treasures of emerging masterpieces of world literature.'

KAMAKSHI BALASUBRAMANIAN, Educator and Writer

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

IMAYAM - pen name of V. Annamalai, a schoolteacher and a writer, has published seven novels: Koveru Kazhuthaigal (1994), Arumugam (1999), Chedal (2006), En Katha (2015), Selladha Panam (2018), Vaazhga Vaazhga (2020), Ippodhu Uyirodirukkiren (2022) and a novella Pethavan (2014). He has eight short story collections to his credit: Man Baaram (2002), Video Mariamman (2008), Kolai Cheval (2013), Saavu Soru (2014), Narumanam (2016), Nan Maaran Kottai Kathai (2019), Thali Mela Sathiyam (2022) and Thiruneeru Sami (2023). He was granted the Junior Fellowship by the Central Government (1999) and has been honoured by many awards including the Tamil Nadu State Award (2010), the Iyal Lifetime Achievement Award (2018), the Sahitya Akademi Award (2020) and the Kuvempu National Award for the year 2022.In 2019, Cre-A celebrated the silver jubilee of his first novel Koveru Kazhuthaigal, considered as one of the classics of present-day Tamil literature, by publishing a special edition. His novels and stories have been translated into English, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and French.

PRABHA SRIDEVAN is a former judge of the Madras High Court (2000-2010) and the former chairperson of the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (2011-2013). Her judgments have dealt, among other things, with the right to freedom of speech, protection of heritage buildings, rights of the oppressed classes, rights of persons with disabilities, gender equality, the economic worth of a homemaker's work, compulsory licensing of a cancer drug, and challenge by Novartis to India's Patent Act. She writes in English and Tamil on issues of law and life. Her translated books include Seeing in the Dark (2015), Echoes of the Veena (2018), which won the Valley of Words Award 2019 for translation, Meeran's Stories (2022), The Man Who walked Backwards and other stories (2023) and Vazhga Vazhga and other stories (2023).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dhanesh Kumar Jain
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9356873682
• ISBN 13: 9789356873681
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 338
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible