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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books India (1 Dec. 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0143423541
  • ISBN-13: 978-0143423546
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.7 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 210,060 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 starsRape seen as a divine sport in India
By Dr Jacques COULARDEAU on 6 April 2015
Format: Paperback
That's a book that will surprise many readers in our western countries. Nothing really special though. A young couple, married ten or twelve years, deeply in love and who are confronted to their childlessness. The book is amazing though we have to consider we are in India between the two world wars under British rule, hence some 80 pr ninety years ago. This may explain some of the items contained in that. I will not though discuss the details of the plot, because there is a plot that ends in the most ominous possible vision.

There certainly is a fertility problem among the characters of this rural area but it is never medically treated and it is never alluded that there could be any medical treatment. So this explains that, it happened 80 or 90 years ago, but it makes the book extremely and even fastidiously archaic. We do not really feel the modern world in this anthropological approach of a world that should be considered as dead, and yet we know it is far from being dead or even dying.

But that's the point. It is not dead. In India right now there is a tremendous development, multiplying phenomenon of raped women, collective rapes, rape in all its possible forms, and we are only speaking of those we know, and most of the rapes concerning Untouchable women are not even mentionable, let alone reported or simply registered by the police when reported. And we are not speaking of the other type of rape that is of course, by principle unmentionable, the rape of children and the rape of men, not necessarily because they are even worse than the rape of women, but because they are not even considered as rape at all: events that happen because fate wants it like that. A man is a man and men will be men. Children are not even to be taken into account.Read more ›
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Amazon.com: HASH(0x8fb46960) out of 5 stars 28 reviews
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HASH(0x8fb4b630) out of 5 stars Vivid, Hardy-esque account of Gounder life 100 years ago 13 Jan. 2015
By Devaki Khanna - Published on Amazon.com
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This moving account of the dilemma faced by a childless Gounder couple a hundred years ago not only depicts a warmly loving relationship between the two, but also describes how their marriage is put to a test when the wife attends the fourteenth day of the Ardhanareeshwara festival in Tiruchingode, in hopes of begetting a child. The author has brought to life the daily work of a farm household--he has used every detail in Ponna and Kali's life together, from the blooming portia tree in his father-in-law's front yard, to the cleanliness and order of Kali's barnyard, to Muthu's ability to find unusual hideaways, to give each character an intense individuality. This is truly a work that can be compared to that of Hardy, in its vivid descriptions of nature and local life. Sadly, the author, like Hardy, is being forced to give up writing, not only his novels and short stories, but also his poetry--because this work has been grossly misrepresented to the public in his state.
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HASH(0x904e1f60) out of 5 stars That is sad. 22 Feb. 2015
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How did people deal with infertility before modern treatments were developed? One solution is to adopt - but for some people it is a public admission of failure. Thus, in Swiss/German cities that celebrate pre-Lent carnivals, on one day everyone got drunk and could go off somewhere with a stranger and take one's chance at conceiving. In south India there is a temple of "Ardha Nareeswara" (Half Woman, half man), and on the last day of the temple festival a similar atmosphere of wild abandon existed, and childless women could sneak off with someone other than their husbands and try their luck. This is a last resort preceded by all sorts of deep emotion. Perumal Murugan gives a moving account of one such couple.
40 years ago Kannada movie director Girish Karnad produced "Vamsavruksha" which dealt with a similar story. Then people were sympathetic. But today India is a cauldron of petty quarrels and some people have condemned Mr.Murugan (and the author of Vamsavruksha) as "promoting immorality", "showing women negatively" etc. They forced him to apologize. That is sad.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
HASH(0x8feb4060) out of 5 stars A wonderful novel. The novel questions the place and role ... 26 April 2015
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A wonderful novel.

The novel questions the place and role of women in Indian society. <b> For a society, that purports to value the equality of man and woman by worshipping Madhorubagan – a deity who is one half woman, it is indeed surprising that Indian woman are valued, not for who they are, but for their ability to attain motherhood, and their commitment to the family unit. Madhorubagan, shines a bright light into this hypocrisy, with unassuming, simple prose. </b>

For a more complete review (with some spoilers), go <a href="http://dhuruva.blogspot.com/2015/04/one-part-woman.html"> here </a>.

For those who read Tamil, you can find reviews <a href="http://baski-reviews.blogspot.com/2015/04/1.html"> here </a> and <a href="http://baski-reviews.blogspot.com/2015/04/2.html"> here</a>.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
HASH(0x8fe76624) out of 5 stars A decent read 9 April 2015
By Akhil Tandulwadikar - Published on Amazon.com
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A very decently told story. I must say the only reason I read this was the conspiracy surrounding the book. Honestly, I cannot tell what the people who protested were offended by. The story is about a couple unable to conceive a child despite trying all the 'remedies' suggested by the village folk. Yet, the family and friends of the couple cannot leave the two alone and make their life difficult. There is a whole lot of superstition in the book, as one would expect in a story set in per-independence south India. One of these superstitions is related to the portrayal of lord shiva as one part woman -- which to my knowledge is done even today. Apparently some people did not like it, and got their way. It is sad that Perumal Murugal won't be writing books anymore.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
HASH(0x8ff89774) out of 5 stars Quiet mirror of society 5 Mar. 2015
By Sandhya Rao - Published on Amazon.com
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I don't know why people have made such a fuss over this novel. It's a quiet, telling comment on society, written in a conversational style. The section about the temple ceremony is so well written. In fact, in all the hullaballoo, what's been missed out is the central point of the novel -- the way society looks upon couples, particularly married women, who don't have children. That's a mirror of society, but of course, that's been ignored altogether.
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