Details:
- author: Perumal Murugan
- full title: Pyre
- narrator: Suvash Mohan
- genre: literary fiction
- topics: #india #marriage #love
- publisher: Random House Audio
- publish date: 15.02.2022
- timing: 6:16:00
My Rating of the Audiobook:
- content: 💙💙💙💙
- narration: 💙💙💙💙💙
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Excerpt from the Book:
The sun was blazing overhead when Saroja and Kumaresan stepped off the bus.
Beyond the tamarind trees that lined the road, all they could see were vast expanses of arid land. There were no houses anywhere in sight. With each searing gust of wind, the white summer heat spread over everything as if white saris had been flung across the sky. There was not a soul on the road. Even the birds were silent. Just an ashen dryness, singed by the heat, hung in the air. Saroja hesitated to venture into that inhospitable space.
My Thoughts:
Saroja and Kumaresan marry in secret. They are in love. Soon after their marriage, Kumaresan takes his new wife to his home village. He expected his mother wouldn’t like him getting married but still thought, in time, she would get used to it. He was wrong. His mother only sees that Kumaresan married a fair-skinned girl from the city who is not used to the heat and sun and doesn’t know how to work. At least, that is what she thinks of Saroja. And not just his mother, but the villagers also are angry because he didn’t marry a girl of his caste.
Kumaresan wants to establish a new business, and Saroja stays home with her mother-in-law. But she feels trapped in her new home. Nobody understands her, and the villagers want nothing to do with her.
Pyre is a sad story about a simple love that nobody even tries to understand.
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