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Pyre

Perumal Murugan

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#6603 of 8,085 books · #2728 in Fiction

Longlisted for the International Booker Prize (2023).

Saroja and Kumaresan are young and in love. After meeting in a small southern Indian town, where Kumaresan works at a soda bottling shop, they quickly marry before returning to Kumaresan's family village to build a new life together. But they are harbouring a dangerous secret: Saroja is from a different caste than Kumaresan, and if the villagers find out, they will both be in grave peril. Faced with venom from her mother-in-law, and questions from her new neighbours, Saroja tries to adjust to a lonely and uncomfortable life, while Kumaresan struggles to scrape together enough money for them to start over somewhere new. Will their love keep them safe in a hostile world?

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Publisher
Pushkin Press
ISBN-13
9781782278634
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Caste discriminationForbidden loveMarriage and family conflict

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