R N Joe D'Cruz

Ocean Rimmed World

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Produktbeschreibung

Three fishermen adrift at sea. A battered log of wood their only hope of survival. Deftly interwoven with the gripping account of their ordeal is the larger story of a fishing community struggling to stay afloat as it contends with the relentless waves of social, political, religious and economic changes which threaten to wash over it. With camera-like close-ups of people, things, and events, this work is the English translation of Joe D'Cruz's Tamil novel Aazhi Soozh Ulagu.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 592
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 137mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780199483587
• ISBN-10: 0199483582
• Artikelnr.: 52530836

Autorenporträt

R.N. Joe D' Cruz is a renowned Tamil writer and novelist. His novel, Aazhi Soozh Ulagu (2005) won the Tamil Nadu state government literary award and Tamil Literary Garden award in 2005, and Korkai (2009) was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2013. D' Cruz hails from the coastal village Uvari in Tamil Nadu and his novels and his works revolve around the life, struggle, history, culture, and other marks of the coastal people in Tamil Nadu. G.Geetha is a freelance translator living in Chennai. A postgraduate in English Literature from Loyola College, Chennai, she has taught English at the undergraduate level for nearly a decade. Her English translation of Hepzibah Jesudasan's Tamil novel 'Putham Veedu' was published in 2007. She has also translated noted Tamil novelist Vannanilavan's 'Kadalpurathil' as 'By the Sea' (2008), and 'Whirling Swirling Sky' (2013), a translation of 'Kiru Kiru Vaanam', a novella by S.Ramakrishnan.

Inhaltsangabe

* Author's Note: Nathimoolam, The Beginning
Translator's Note
Introduction by Shiv Vishvanathan
Ocean Rimmed World
Glossary
About the Author and the Translator