Current Show
Perumal Murugan, Translated from the Tamil by V. Geetha
Set in a small highway town in South India, Current Show reveals moments in the life of Sathi, a young soda-seller in a run-down theater. Sathi's grim and dreamy life is clocked by show time. The tedium of his ill-paid work is offset by his friends, young men who work around the theater, fighting, playing, bullying, yet supporting each other. An intense and tender friendship with one of the men sustains Sathi, until a train of events cast the meagre certainties of his everyday into disarray.Written in a spare, swift style that mimics the rapid images and cuts of cinema, Current Show leads into the murky twilight world of the dispossessed.
Fiction/Translation
Softcover
160 pages
£ 5.99 / $ 9.95 / Rs.195
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