Estuary - Perumal Murugan, Nandini Krishnan

Perumal Murugan, Nandini Krishnan

Category: Contemporary

Tags: Contemporary, Literature

Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins, Late at night, Kumarasurars phone rings shrilly. His teenage son is calling. What could he want?, A seemingly simple demand torments Kumarasurar, who fears it might put his finances - and perhaps his sons life - in jeopardy. As a fathers anxieties unravel, his memories undermine his self-worth, and imaginary scenes of damnation taunt him., Estuary brings alive the different ways - absurd and endearing by turns - in which a man and his young son navigate the contemporary world. In the process, it peels back the layers of Kumarasurars loneliness: the hurt of a married man whose wife cares only for the happiness of their child, the endless monotony of an office job, and the struggle of the salaried middle class to give their children the best chance of success., Perumal Murugans latest novel, his first in an urban setting, is also a razor-sharp parody of everything from e-commerce to the fitness industry, art appreciation to political manipulation, cram schools