{"product_id":"pyre-9780802159335","title":"Pyre","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eOne Part Woman\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Story of a Goat\u003c\/i\u003e, both longlisted for the National Book Award for Translation, comes a poignant and startling novel about love, caste, and intolerance\u003c\/b\u003eProfiled in both the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eand the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, Perumal Murugan is one of India's highest selling and most respected literary writers, and \u003ci\u003ePyre\u003c\/i\u003e is perhaps his most beloved work. Saroja and Kumaresan are young and in love. After meeting in a small southern Indian town where Kumaresan works at a soda bottling shop, they quickly marry before returning to Kumaresan's family village, where they hope to build a happy life together. But they are harboring a terrible secret: Saroja is from a different caste than Kumaresan, and if the villagers find out, they will both be in grave danger. Faced with venom from her mother-in-law and questions from her new neighbors, Saroja tries to adjust to a new lonely and uncomfortable life, while Kumaresan struggles to scrape together enough money for them to start over somewhere new. Will their love keep them safe in a world filled with thorns? In evocative prose, Perumal Murugan masterfully conjures a moving tale of innocent young love pitted against chilling violence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAniruddhan Vasudevan\u003c\/strong\u003e writes and translates between Tamil and English. He is currently a Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Princeton Society of Fellows and Lecturer in Anthropology and the Humanities Council (2020-2023), Princeton University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Grove Press, Black Cat","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50520479203602,"sku":"9780802159335","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_77b778ea-735f-40cc-a9d8-989fc8429f0d.jpg?v=1731084875","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/pyre-9780802159335","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}