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Resolve
- Title
- Resolve / Perumal Murugan ; translated from the Tamil by Aniruddhan Vasudevan.
- Author
- Publication
- Gurugram, Haryana, India : Hamish Hamilton/Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2021.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PL4758.9.P389 K3613 2021 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Aniruddhan Vasudevan
- Description
- x, 395 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- It might be a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, or at least a piece of land, must be in want of a wife, but Marimuthu's path to marriage is strewn with obstacles big and small. Inward-looking, painfully awkward, desperately lonely and deeply earnest, Marimuthu is fuelled by constant rejection into an unforgettable and transformative matrimonial quest. Enter a series of marriage brokers, horoscopes, infatuations, refusals and 'bride-seeing' expeditions gone awry, which lead Marimuthu to a constant re-evaluation of his marital prospects. But this is no comedy of manners, and before long we find ourselves reckoning with questions of agricultural change, hierarchies of caste, the values of older generations and the grim antecedents of Marimuthu's poor prospects, as decades of sex-selective abortion have destroyed the fabric of his community and its demographics.
- Uniform Title
- கங்கணம் English
- Kaṅkaṇam English
- Alternative Title
- கங்கணம்
- Kaṅkaṇam
- Subject
- Marriage > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Novels.
- Humorous fiction.
- Romans.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Also available as an ebook.
- ISBN
- 9780670087792
- 0670087793
- LCCN
- 2021317425
- OCLC
- on1286367888
- 1286367888
- SCSB-14504159
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library