The Book Of Desire

The Book Of Desire
Meena Kandasamy
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Hardback
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5 Jan 2023 UK
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9781913111366
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The Book of Desire is the award-winning (and Women' s Prize-shortlisted) writer Meena Kandasamy' s luminous translation of the Kamattu-p-pal, a 2000-year-old song of love and pleasure and the third part of the Thirukkural - one of the most important texts in Tamil literature. Written by the poet Thiruvalluvar, the Kamattu-p-pal section of the Thirukkural focuses on love and female sensuality. It is the most intimate section of this great work - and also, historically, the part that has been most heavily censored. Although hundreds of male translations of the text have been published, it has also only ever been translated by a woman once before. The Book of Desire is Meena' s own feminist reclamation of the Kamattu-p-pal. With her trademark wit, lyricism and passionate insight, she weaves a magic spell: taking the reader on a journey through 250 kurals (short verses), organised under separate headings - ' The Pleasure of Sex' , ' Renouncing Shame' , ' The Delights of Sulking - the result is
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781913111366
Published: 5 Jan 2023
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Galley Beggar Press
Publisher: Galley Beggar Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 1mm
Width: 1mm
Pages: 150

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