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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. The Book of Desire is the award-winning (and Women's Prize-shortlisted) writer Meena Kandasamy's luminous translation of the Kamattu-p-pal, a 2000-year-old song of love and pleasure and the third part of the Thirukkural - one of the most important texts in Tamil literature. Written by the poet Thiruvalluvar, the Kamattu-p-pal section of the Thirukkural focuses on love and female sensuality. It is the most intimate section of this great work - and also, historically, the part that has been most heavily censored. Although hundreds of male translations of the text have been published, it has also only ever been translated by a woman once before. The Book of Desire is Meena's own feminist reclamation of the Kamattu-p-pal. With her trademark wit, lyricism and passionate insight, she weaves a magic spell: taking the reader on a journey through 250 kurals (short verses), organised under separate headings - 'The Pleasure of Sex', 'Renouncing Shame', 'The Delights of Sulking - the result is Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781913111366

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ISBN 10: 1913111369 ISBN 13: 9781913111366

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The Book of Desire

Tiruvalluvar (author), Meena Kandasamy (translator)

Published by Galley Beggar Press 2023-01-05, Norwich (2023)

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Kandasamy, Meena

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Meena Kandasamy

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ISBN 10: 1913111369 ISBN 13: 9781913111366

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