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The taming of women
- Title
- The taming of women / P. Sivakami ; translated from the Tamil by Pritham K. Chakravarthy.
- Author
- Civakāmi
- Publication
- New Delhi : Penguin Books, 2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PL4758.9.C52375 A61 2012 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Chakravarthy, Pritham K.
- Description
- 254 pages; 20 cm
- Summary
- Women of many generations live in that house at the end of the road, with the tyrannical and charismatic Periyannan always trying to bring them under his control. Voracious in his appetites, for both power and sex, Periyannan is a domineering antagonist to the tender but tenacious Anandhayi. In her most celebrated novel, Sivakami vividly evokes a world where women and men are in constant conflict, scrambling for the little power to which they can hold on. It is her superb satiric eyecapturing in comic vignettes of exquisite detail the life of women in a village transforming into a small town that brings relief to this bleak, blistering vision of humanity, leaving the reader simultaneously amused and devastated.
- Uniform Title
- Ān̲antāyi. English
- Alternative Title
- Ān̲antāyi.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Satire.
- Fiction
- Satire
- Translations
- Fiction.
- Romans.
- Note
- Novel.
- ISBN
- 9780143104100
- 0143104101
- LCCN
- 2012353567
- OCLC
- ocn815621174
- 815621174
- SCSB-1665424
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library