Genre: | Classics |
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Language : | English |
Published: | January 01, 2017 |
Edition: | 1st |
Paperback | |
ISBN13: | 9780143428350 |
ISBN10: | 0143428357 |
Pages: | 200 |
Dimensions: | 5.08 x 7.8 x 0.48 inches |
Weight: | 150.25 g |
Sathi is a young soda-seller in a run-down cinema hall in a small town. Ill-paid and always weary, he finds relief from everyday tedium in marijuana and his friends-vulnerable, desperate young men who work around the movie hall. An intense and tender friendship with one of the men sustains Sathi, until a train of events casts the meagre certainties of his days and nights into disarray.
Slick, visceral and startlingly inventive, Current Show unfolds in a manner that simulates rapid cinematic cuts. Murugan's keen eye and crackling prose plumb the dark underbelly of small-town life, bringing Sathi's world and entanglements thrillingly to life.
'[Murugan's] characters, dialogues and locales are unerringly drawn and intensely evocative . . . A superb writer'-Indian Express
'The most accomplished of his generation of Tamil writers'-Caravan