A review by heartshapedness
Pyre by Perumal Murugan
4.0
// "people lived around here in all directions. there was nowhere she could seek help."
a novel about an intercaste marriage that progressively gets more awry by the page, all rendered in simple and lucid writing that complements perfectly with the complex politics of caste and gender. influenced to write the story by the unfortunately increasingly common occurrence of the real-life killing of a dalit man who had been in a relationship with an upper caste woman, perumal murugan has no qualms about depicting the brutalities of intercaste alliances in this harrowing story
a novel about an intercaste marriage that progressively gets more awry by the page, all rendered in simple and lucid writing that complements perfectly with the complex politics of caste and gender. influenced to write the story by the unfortunately increasingly common occurrence of the real-life killing of a dalit man who had been in a relationship with an upper caste woman, perumal murugan has no qualms about depicting the brutalities of intercaste alliances in this harrowing story