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037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books, Kadavanthra, Kochi
041			_aEnglish
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100			_aKarichan Kunju (Narayanaswami R.)
245			_aHUNGRY HUMANS _c/Translated from the Tamil by Sudha G. Tilak
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260			_aHaryana _bPenguin Random House _c2022/01/01
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500			_a Ganesan returns, after four decades, to the town of his childhood, filled with memories of love and loneliness, of youthful beauty and the ravages of age and misfortune, of the promise of talent and its slow destruction. Seeking treatment for leprosy, he must also come to terms with his past: his exploitation at the hands of older men, his growing consciousness of desire and his own sexual identity, his steady disavowal of Brahminical morality and his slowly degenerating body. He longs for liberation-sexual, social and spiritual-but finally finds peace only in self-acceptance. This translation of the groundbreaking Tamil novel Pasitha Manidam, first published in 1978, offers deep insight into the conservative and caste-conscious temple town of Kumbakonam, viewed here with dispassionately cold clarity as a society that utterly fails its own. Sudha G. Tilak deftly builds upon Karichan Kunju's prose to expose this world, raw, real, without frills or artifice. The themes of masculinity, desire and sexuality, caged within caste and repression, all combine to give readers front-row seats to the many acts we put on for and as a community.
650			_aFiction
650			_aFiction- Tamil Novel Pasitha Manidam
650			_aFiction - Gay
650			_aLGBTQ Fiction
700			_aSudha G. Tilak (tr.)
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