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Rising Heat

By: By: Publication details: Haryana : Penguin Random House, 1991Description: 318ISBN:
  • 9780670093663
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823 MUR
Summary: Young Selvans life is no longer the same. His familys ancestral land has been sold in order to make way for the construction of a housing colony. Now the verdant landscape of his childhood has been denuded, while Selvan and his family are compelled to move to much smaller lodgings. In the ensuing years, as the pressures of their situation simmer to a boil, Selvan observes his family undergo dramatic shifts in their fortunes as greed and jealousy threaten to overshadow their lives. Murugans first novel, which launched a splendid literary career, is a tour de force. Now translated for the first time, it poses powerful questions about the human cost of relentless urbanization in the name of progress...
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Book Book Alliance School of Liberal Arts 823 MUR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available LA04433
Book Book Alliance School of Liberal Arts 823 MUR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available LA04434
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Young Selvans life is no longer the same. His familys ancestral land has been sold in order to make way for the construction of a housing colony. Now the verdant landscape of his childhood has been denuded, while Selvan and his family are compelled to move to much smaller lodgings. In the ensuing years, as the pressures of their situation simmer to a boil, Selvan observes his family undergo dramatic shifts in their fortunes as greed and jealousy threaten to overshadow their lives. Murugans first novel, which launched a splendid literary career, is a tour de force. Now translated for the first time, it poses powerful questions about the human cost of relentless urbanization in the name of progress...

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