{"title":"Jeyamohan","description":"Jeyamohan is a preeminent writer in modern Tamil literature. His works of fiction examine fundamental human questions while being rooted in the spiritual, cultural and literary traditions of India. Venmurasu, his reimagination of the epic Mahabharata over a novel-series of twenty-six parts, is considered one of the longest literary works in the world. His other major works include the novels Vishnupuram, Kottravai, Pin Thodarum Nizhalin Kural, Kaadu, and Ezhaam Ulagam (The Abyss). He is the founder of several important cultural initiatives in Tamil, including a literary organization called the Vishnupuram Literary Circle, an encyclopedia of Tamil culture called Tamil Wiki, and an institute that offers courses in philosophy, cultural and religious studies called Nityavanam. The Abyss is his second work to be available in English, following his short story collection Stories of the True, which was a finalist for the National Translation Award in 2023. Jeyamohan lives in Nagercoil, India.Suchitra writes fiction in Tamil and translates between Tamil and English. Her work has appeared in literary magazines including Asymptote and Narrative Magazine. She won the Asymptote Close Approximations Prize for Fiction Translation in 2017. The Abyss is her first full-length translated work. Suchitra lives in Bengaluru, India.","products":[{"product_id":"the-abyss-hardcover","title":"The Abyss - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRaw, tender, and darkly comic, \u003cem\u003eThe Abyss\u003c\/em\u003e is widely considered a masterpiece from Jeyamohan, a writer whose body of work has shaped modern Tamil literature.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePothivelu Pandaram is known as a successful, God-fearing man about town: he has a loyal wife, three daughters, and money to pay for their dowries. However, it's an open secret that his success is fueled by a trade that is as profitable as it is cruel: he owns--and breeds--a group of physically deformed beggars and places them outside temples to collect money.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is Mangandi Samy, with just one arm, no legs, and \"a little head on top,\" who only speaks in divine songs he himself invents; Ahmedkutty, an intellectual whose testicles hang to the floor \"like two great pumpkins\"; Muthammai, mother to eighteen children. To Pandaram, they are only \"items,\" to be bought and sold like cattle. But when he makes an impulsive trade, his luck turns. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with an unflinching eye and suffused with a deep existential longing, \u003cem\u003eThe Abyss\u003c\/em\u003e is an extraordinary novel--for its terrain, its fundamental questions about humanity, and its depiction of human suffering and liberation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101848047839,"sku":"9798893380040","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/0TobkMbvr09798893380040.webp?v=1781075755"},{"product_id":"stories-of-the-true-paperback","title":"Stories of the True - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA riotous, masterful, and tender portrait of the real modern India as seen through the truth-refracting fiction of Tamil literature's greatest living storyteller. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA stunning new literary vision of India. In these dozen minutely observed stories, Jeyamohan juxtaposes the great themes of Indian life--politics, religion, caste, violence--in illuminating relation to the quiet internal machinery of his characters. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \"A Hundred Armchairs,\" a bureaucrat receives the news that his mother has been found in a hospital for the indigent. As he rushes to her side, he is visited by memories of his nomadic youth with her, of her violence and mania, her wild fear for his safety, his forced adoption and education by a local guru. In \"Elephant Doctor,\" a young man spends a restive night at an elephant camp waiting for a call from the office of the president; he has spent months advocating for an award for his idol, Dr. Krishnamurthy, one of the country's preeminent conservationists. But in the still hours of the morning he's haunted by questions about the doctor's enigmatic ways and the strange magic of this dark corner of the forest. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe tales in \u003ci\u003eStories of the True\u003c\/i\u003e live in the shadowland between truth and fiction, blending real life with the prismatic effect of Jeyamohan's volatile and incisive prose. The result is a collection that shimmers with life and wisdom and a truth greater than truth all on its own.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102805692639,"sku":"9780374619459","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/j_AfqODvCJ9780374619459.webp?v=1781087390"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/jeyamohan.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}