The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction, Volume 1
SELECTED AND TRANSLATED BY PRITHAM K. CHAKRAVARTHY, EDITED BY RAKESH KHANNA
PUBLISHED BY BLAFT, 2008
Mad scientists! Desperate housewives! Murderous robots! Scandalous starlets! Sordid, drug-fueled love affairs!
This anthology features seventeen stories by ten best-selling authors of Tamil crime, romance, science fiction, and detective stories, none of them ever before translated into English, along with reproductions of wacky cover art and question-and-answer sessions with some of the authors. Grab a masala vadai, sit back and enjoy.
Including detective fiction heavyweights Subha and Pattukkottai Prabakar; Rajesh Kumar, the world’s most prolific living author of fiction (with over 1750 novels to his credit); Ramanichandran, queen of romance and the all-time bestselling author in Tamil; and many more.
PRAISE
“Possibly the most significant contribution to Indian writing this year.”
— Vijay Nambisan, Deccan Herald
“There are two reasons to buy this book. One, it's a wonderful read and two, it's the best-produced paperback in the history of Indian Publishing.”
— Mukul Kesavan, Outlook Magazine
“These anthologies deceptively and admirably unsettle Eurocentric notions of both literature and culture... and do so with plenty of lust, crime, blood, and guts.”
— Alice Robinson, Southpaw
INFORMATION
ISBN 9788190605601
400 pages, paperback