The Ichi Tree Monkey

The Ichi Tree Monkey

New and Selected Stories

Bama

Translated by N Ravi Shanker

This collection includes five new stories by the acclaimed author of Karukku and Sangati. Written from the Dalit colonies of rural Tamil Nadu, Bama brings together characters for whom resistance to the ignominy of caste oppression is articulated through vivid language, ribald humour and everyday acts of defiance. In each short story, she describes not only the brutality her people face but the full expanse of their culture, daily life and their ways of assertion.

Speaking Tiger, Rs 299, 160 pages