Moustache - Couverture souple

Hareesh, S.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9356997632 ISBN 13 : 9789356997639

Editeur : Harper Perennial, 2024

Synopsis

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Vavachan is a Pulayan who gets the opportunity to play a policeman with an immense moustache in a musical drama. The character appears in only two scenes and has no dialogue. However, Vavachan's performance, and his moustache, terrify the mostly upper-caste audience, reviving in them memories of characters of Dalit power, such as Ravanan. Afterwards, Vavachan, whose people were traditionally banned from growing facial hair, refuses to shave off his moustache. Endless tales invent and reinvent the legend of his magic moustache in which birds roost, which allows its owner to appear simultaneously in different places and disappear in an instant, which grows as high as the sky and as thick as rainclouds-and turn Vavachan into Moustache, a figure of mythic proportions.

Set in Kuttanad, a below-sea-level farming region on the south-west coast of Kerala, the novel is as much a story of this land as it is of Vavachan and its other inhabitants. As they navigate the intricate waterscape, stories unfold in which ecology, power dynamics and politics become key themes.

Originally published in Malayalam as Meesha, S. Hareesh's Moustache is a contemporary classic mixing magic, myth and metaphor into a tale of far-reaching resonance.

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A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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S. HAREESH is the author of two novels and three short story collections. His novel Meesha won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award, the Vayalar Award and the Deshabhimani Award; and its English translation Moustache (translated by Jayasree Kalathil) won the 2020 JCB Prize for Literature. His short story collections include 'Adam', which received the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award, Rasavidyayude Charithram, and Appan. He is also a recipient of the Geetha Hiranyan Endowment, the Thomas Mundassery Prize and the V.P. Sivakumar Memorial Prize. Hareesh hails from Neendoor in Kottayam district, Kerala.

JAYASREE KALATHIL is the author of the children's book The Sackclothman, which has been translated into Malayalam, Telugu and Hindi. Her translations have won the JCB Prize for Literature (for S. Hareesh's Moustache in 2020), the Crossword Book Award (for N. Prabhakaran's Diary of a Malayali Madman in 2019), and the V. Abdulla Memorial Translation Award (for Sheela Tomy's Valli in 2023). Valli was also shortlisted for the 2023 National Book Award from the American Literary Translators Association, the 2022 JCB Prize for Literature, and the Atta Galatta-BLF Book Prize 2022. Jayasree lives in a small village in the New Forest, UK.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harper Perennial
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9356997632
• ISBN 13: 9789356997639
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 360
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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