Bücher von Imayam Imayam

Kamala, a beautiful, self-possessed and fiercely independent widow, comes toa village, where she has been given a job on compassionate grounds, with hertwo daughters. She meets the narrator for the first time at a phone booth, andalmost immediately, becomes the object of his lonely, consuming passion. He'sa drifter, educated but jobless, low on self-esteem, and his love will become aderangement. He will seek debasement, he will rage and inflict violence, andeventually set in motion a desperate plan that might destroy both Kamala andhim.Translated with brilliant skill from the Tamil original-En Kathe-this is acompelling and unsettling study of obsession. It is an unforgettable work byone of India's finest and most powerful writers.