03130cam a2200373 4500 410061426 TxAuBib 20200111120000.0 ||||||s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780802147523 0802147526 B07QM9QFP3 Amazon 67168fec-6d5b-484b-964f-bece9af518a1 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 4682975 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Murugan, Perumal. The Story of a Goat [Libby eBook]. Grove Atlantic, 2019. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2345kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. PEN International. Times of India. translation. small press. HTML:As he did in the award-winning <i>One Part Woman</i>, in his newest novel, <i>The Story of a Goat</i>, Perumal Murugan explores a side of India that is rarely considered in the West: the rural lives of the country's farming community. He paints a bucolic yet sometimes menacing portrait, showing movingly how danger and deception can threaten the lives of the weakest through the story of a helpless young animal lost in a world it naively misunderstands. <p>s the novel opens, a farmer in Tamil Nadu is watching the sun set over his village one quiet evening when a mysterious stranger, a giant man who seems more than human, appears on the horizon. He offers the farmer a black goat kid who is the runt of the litter, surely too frail to survive. The farmer and his wife take care of the young she-goat, whom they name Poonachi, and soon the little goat is bounding with joy and growing at a rate they think miraculous for such a small animal. Intoxicating passages from the goat's perspective offer a bawdy and earthy view of what it means to be an animal and a refreshing portrayal of the natural world. But Poonachi's life is not destined to be a rural idyll—dangers can lurk around every corner, and may sometimes come from surprising places, including a government that is supposed to protect the weak and needy. Is this little goat too humble a creature to survive such a hostile world?</p> <p>With allegorical resonance for contemporary society and examining hierarchies of caste and color, <i>The Story of the Goat</i> is a provocative but heartwarming fable from a world-class storyteller who is finally achieving recognition outside his home country.</p>. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2020-01-11 22:00:03. Raman, N Kalyan. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=67168fec-6d5b-484b-964f-bece9af518a1&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=67168fec-6d5b-484b-964f-bece9af518a1&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=67168fec-6d5b-484b-964f-bece9af518a1&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)