num_pages: 218
description: Ambai, one of the finest modern Tamil short-story writers, is much read, discussed and written about, and loved for the wit, innovative story-telling, and lyrical grace of her writing.Breaking traditional modes of expression in terms of language and content, In a Forest, a Deer recounts the saga of Tangam Athai, whose husband remarried because she could not bear him a child and Chinthiru's journey to the forest alongside the mythological tale of Sita's exile to underscoreChinthiru's unique search for self-identity. Winner of the Hutch Crossword Book Award 2006, this collection is an enduring testimony of the ideology and belief that Ambai's writings affirm-the need to know and be in touch with a stable or 'grounded' self that allows fluidity and change in moderntimes of travel, dislocation, and exile.
language: English
title: In A Forest, A Deer: Stories by Ambai
titlecomplete: In A Forest, A Deer: Stories by Ambai
genres: Indian Literature, India, Short Stories, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 161
series: அம்பை சிறுகதைகள்
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Crossword Book Award
category: Translation
publisher: Oxford University Press