Manoj Kuroor

The Day the Earth Bloomed (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

We were getting ready to leave - we did not know if we would return. If the seaweed broods over its loosened roots, it can never glide on a current.

So begins the bittersweet account of Kolumban, the man of the family, the player of the lute in his community of itinerant bards. The paanar live near forests, but do not know how to hunt. There are fields of millet behind their huts but they are unused to sowing or reaping. Tired of depending on song and dance to make a living, and the attendant poverty, the eldest son, Mayilan, runs away from home. Many years later his family sets out to find him. As they roam the land, they perform in village commons and palaces, to farmers and cowherds, and famous kings and even more famous poets.

Set seventeen centuries ago, The Day the Earth Bloomed tells the intertwined stories of Kolumban, his daughter Chithira and son Mayilan, drawing on the celebrated poems of classical Tamil. The result is an electrifying and haunting connection to the past.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789356406612
• Artikelnr.: 72249229

Autorenporträt

Manoj Kuroor is an award-winning poet and professor of Malayalam. He has written two kathakali librettos and
songs for films including Shaji N. Karun's Vanaprastham. Manoj learnt thayambaka and kathakali melam from his father, Kuroor Cheriya Vasudevan Namboothiri, and from Aayamkudi Kuttappa Marar. He has been playing
chenda for kathakali since 1989.

J. Devika is a historian, feminist, critic and translator. She has written and published in Malayalam and
English on gender, politics, literature, social reform and development in Kerala. She translated writings by
first-generation feminists in Kerala in Her Self: Early Writings on Gender by Malayalee Women 1898-1938.
She has also translated contemporary Malayalam writers K.R. Meera, Sarah Joseph, Ambikasuthan Mangad and Unni among others.