TY - GEN AU - Murugan, Perumal AU - Raman, Kalyan (Translator) TI - The Goat Thief SN - 9789353450427 U1 - 823 MUR PY - 2019/// CY - New Delhi PB - Juggernaut KW - Fiction KW - General Fiction KW - Literature, N2 - From one of India's most acclaimed writers comes a powerful collection of short stories set in rural Tamil Nadu. Dark, fantastic and ironic, these stories span Murugan's entire career and are specially selected by the author to represent the best of his work. 'Holds the depth of his novels but with an added touch of lightness' Scroll 'Murugan consistently punctures the surface to explore what lurks beneath' Open 'Stories that Murugan says gave him the most satisfaction as a writer. Interestingly, many of these stories, all of which start in his pronounced realistic style, achieve an other-worldliness towards the end' Mint ER -