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7188462Anthill (Puttu, winner of Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award)https://www.gandhi.com.mx/anthill-9789354928659/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/6729181/image.jpg?v=63872535064450000097108MXNPenguin Random House India Private LimitedInStock/Ebooks/<p>The remote village of Perumpadi, at the border between Kerala and Karnataka, is a unique settlement. Bounded by dense Kodagu forests on the south and west, and raging rivers on the north and east, its very isolation was what drew the first settlers to this unharnessed land.</p><p>The first to make his way across this rough terrain was Kunjuvarkey, along with a young woman bearing his child. Kunjuvarkey was fleeing the opprobrium of getting his own daughter pregnant. Those who followed had similar shameful secrets. In a land of sinners, where no one pried into the others past, they were able to live and build a community without being tied down by societys interdictions.</p><p>Fifty years later, as the community moves into modernity, they start showing signs of reforming from their beginnings-of a hillbilly and promiscuous existence. With no panchayats to resolve local disputes, following in his fathers footsteps, Jeremias Paul of Reformation House, known by the moniker President, becomes the unchallenged adjudicator of Perumpadi, thanks to his equanimity and sense of fairness.</p><p>But Jeremias has his own secrets and, ultimately, may have to answer for his own moral lapse.</p><p><em>Anthill</em>, a robust translation of the award-winning novel Puttu and with a cast of over 200 characters, tells the story of a people who have tried to shed the shackles of family, religion and other restraining institutions, but eventually also struggle to conform to the needs of a cultured society.</p><p>Written with disarming honesty and biting humour, <em>Anthill</em> is ultimately a story that questions the veneer of respectability people try to put up in their lives.</p>...6842025Anthill (Puttu, winner of Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award)97108https://www.gandhi.com.mx/anthill-9789354928659/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/6729181/image.jpg?v=638725350644500000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20239789354928659_W3siaWQiOiI2MWU0YWI5OC1mYzk2LTQ1YTYtOTA4Yy0wNjUwYTUwZDAzNDEiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjEwOCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjEwLCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjk4LCJpbmNsdWRlc1RheCI6dHJ1ZSwicHJpY2VUeXBlIjoiV2hvbGVzYWxlIiwiY3VycmVuY3kiOiJNWE4iLCJmcm9tIjoiMjAyNC0xMi0xOVQyMTowMDowMFoiLCJyZWdpb24iOiJNWCIsImlzUHJlb3JkZXIiOmZhbHNlfV0=9789354928659_<p>The remote village of Perumpadi, at the border between Kerala and Karnataka, is a unique settlement. Bounded by dense Kodagu forests on the south and west, and raging rivers on the north and east, its very isolation was what drew the first settlers to this unharnessed land.</p><p>The first to make his way across this rough terrain was Kunjuvarkey, along with a young woman bearing his child. Kunjuvarkey was fleeing the opprobrium of getting his own daughter pregnant. Those who followed had similar shameful secrets. In a land of sinners, where no one pried into the others past, they were able to live and build a community without being tied down by societys interdictions.</p><p>Fifty years later, as the community moves into modernity, they start showing signs of reforming from their beginnings-of a hillbilly and promiscuous existence. With no panchayats to resolve local disputes, following in his fathers footsteps, Jeremias Paul of Reformation House, known by the moniker President, becomes the unchallenged adjudicator of Perumpadi, thanks to his equanimity and sense of fairness.</p><p>But Jeremias has his own secrets and, ultimately, may have to answer for his own moral lapse.</p><p><em>Anthill</em>, a robust translation of the award-winning novel Puttu and with a cast of over 200 characters, tells the story of a people who have tried to shed the shackles of family, religion and other restraining institutions, but eventually also struggle to conform to the needs of a cultured society.</p><p>Written with disarming honesty and biting humour, <em>Anthill</em> is ultimately a story that questions the veneer<br />of respectability people try to put up in their lives.</p>...9789354928659_Penguin Random House India Private Limitedlibro_electonico_9789354928659_9789354928659Vinoy ThomasInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/randomhouseindia-epub-317507d6-f60e-41bf-897c-bde2c00d548e.epub2023-01-23T00:00:00+00:00Penguin Random House India Private Limited