Four Strokes of Luck
Perumal Murugan
Translated by Nandini Krishnan
Kumaresan, who gets a new job working in a shack near a bypass road, is crazy about books. Amma pines for an old buffalo her family had sold. Murugesu isn’t on talking terms with his father and doesn’t want to get married. The stories in this collection explore the characters’ families, loneliness and loves with humour and liveliness.
Juggernaut, Rs 499, 232 pages
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