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Chittansaritam', which stirs with aesthetic imagery unknown to today's generation, records not only the story of several generations but also the culture, values, and above all, the tragic biography of the Jaffna Tamil community. Every character, including the wind and the moon, is sculpted with elegance. In its narrative breadth and mastery, 'Chittansaritam' compels us to compare it with Chinua Achebe's 'Things Fall Apart'.

Kaanal Desam' is a new novel by writer, doctor Noel Nadesan. A story that happens amidst the three decades of war in Sri Lanka. It talks about historical truths hidden for the sake of war and its ideals. Where historians hesitate to state truths, fiction fills that role. The possibilities of fiction, and the courage to undertake it are utilised in this novel to find a path to the truth.

In a village where basic amenities like education, medicine, roads and drainage haven't made their marks yet, the lives of the poor, uneducated people who live by placing their trust on the land, go through a drastic change. Following that, the close links between the people and the very foundation of the village, are shattered. This novel is not just the story of a lost village in the Kongu region of western Tamil Nadu. It is also a historica...

Thi.Janakiraman's Marapasu has created discussions, controversies since the 1970s. Marapasu was a direct reflection of his he narrates his life experience and that experience strengthens the idea of the novel further. When feminism talks were becoming popular in all over world, Marapasu was the first creation in Tamil which discussed about it. The main character of this novel Ammini is trying to hold each and every creation of world with love....

Devakanthan's new novel 'Kanthil Paavai' is a story that unfolds between 1800 - 2015. His last novel 'Kanavuchirai' was a critically acclaimed work. 'Kanthil Paavai' is a story of four generations, as mental disorders hurt them, with war deepening the wounds, and chasing them to the edge. The novel entwines separate stories of the four generations with a single thread. It's a stream that runs backwards. Kantharodai is considered as the mythica...

Writer, poet sukumaran's second novel is on the life of a mughal princess. Jahanara begum was the eldest daughter of Mughal king shah jahan and his beloved queen mumtaz mahal. She had the political expertise to advice her father at the age of fourteen, and has learnt hindu puraanas, persian books and the Quran. She knew history, poetry, dance, music and architecture among other things. She was a dreamer and had plans to carry out her dreams. S...

We could have seen many women responding with an embarrassing smile to our question, "children...?". Only they can feel the pain behind that smile. Aside from the individual longing for a child, the stigmas imposed on masculinity/femininity in the family and society over infertility can multiply this pain. The unspeakable agony of physical and mental trauma caused by the treatments for child birth is a separate story. Lavanya Sundarrajan's Ka...

This is Yuvan Chandrasekar's seventh novel. A reader familiar with Yuvan's body of work would be able to identify a similarity on all his novels - that all of them are travel stories. 'Oorsutri' (Wanderer) is not an exception to that. But where travel happens in other stories as an event or with a movie, here all the possibilities are explored. The journey that the wanderer Seethapathi undergoes is not merely one of geographical locations, bu...

Vidamabanam' is artist Srinivasan Natarajan's debut novel. In this work, the author attempts all possible forms of what we call a 'novel'. At the same time, with satire as his tool, he pokes fun at them too. A freedom given by that cruel satire of establishments makes for the novel's structure. Writer Sukumaran praises the novel for using the freedom to the fullest extent. It satirises established values, aesthetics, history, and individual th...

Amirtham is the first novel of Thi. Janakiraman, a pioneer celebrated for taking the literary form to new heights. It was published in 'Giraama Oozhiyan' magazine as a series in 1944, and was published as a book for the first time in 1948. The novel announces the arrival of a great writer, and bears resemblance to some of his great works that followed. The language of this novel may have aged, but the context remains relevant. Equal gender rel...

Tharunizhal' is the first work by R. Sivakumar, who has gained significant attention amongst avid readers through his reliable Tamil translation of works from other languages. For most writers, the first novel is a retelling of their life experiences, especially the memories of the period in which their individual personalities took shape. This novel too is an attempt by the author to capture the personal and social experiences of his youth a...

Malar Manjam was the second novel of Thi. Janakiraman, who has been praised as one of the greatest Tamil writers. Like his debut, this novel was also published as a series in Sudesamithran weekly magazine. This novel brought him to the attention of many readers, with his fascination with human drama and relentless discourse on male-female relationships. With themes like polygamy and unorthodox love, it was much talked about following its publi...

Set against the backdrop of the temporary phenomenon of general lockdown, Perumal Murugan's novel deals with some of the permanent problems of human life. There are two journeys in the novel. One is a road trip and another is the inner journey through life. Both travel in parallel lines influencing each other in the narrative. The novel examines the values of love against the backdrop of the inevitable nature of real life. The novel takes a cl...

Childhood friends Sowmyan and Ruban's paths have split away. When they meet again, Sowmyan is thrown into a wild turn of events, which feels like a repetition of his family history. Pettai happens around chennai's chindadripettai. Revolving around two generations of a family living in modern day chindadripettai, it starts with the historical foundation of the place as a town. A logical formation of livelihood in the land, and individual live...

India 1944-48', a novel by pioneer Tamil writer Ashokamitran, is about two lives - before and after the Indian independence. Published first as two separate novellas 'Bombay 1944', 'India 1948', the work has been now compiled into a single novel as per the author's wish. Reclaiming memories blurred by the unstoppable flow of time, Ashokamitran paints men and their struggles from two varied and important time periods of the nation.

There have been various works in Indian languages on the changes of values during the post- independence era in socio-political spheres. Indira Parthasarathy, who used to deal with the anxiety of shattered dreams, has made the hard realities of post-independence period as the central point of this novel. Indira Parthasarathy, who is adept at portraying the life of urban educated, middle-class people with its psychological elements, records the...

An endless war began when the English tried to establish their power in India, between them and the maraikaayar communities of the western coast in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The English tried to steal away trade and sea supremacy from the maraikaayars. Maraikayar's fight for their rights was a story of valour and miracles. As the religion of such valorous history is now trying to expand its power, where are the people who played...

This is a modern Tamil novel, portraying the problems of modern Tamil life. Starting with a murder, the narrative continues on four different threads, following the perspectives of: Chinese person, a Japanese person, an Indian Tamilian and a Singapore Tamil woman. Every chapter starts with a quote from French writer Derrida and the narrative of the chapters investigates them. In a storytelling style that is new to Tamil literature, the author ...

This novel is about the journey undertaken by three friends and the different stories they tell during the journey.

The conflict between desire and reality is beautifully described in this much appreciated novel.