Where are You Going, You Monkeys? Folk Tales from Tamil Nadu by Ki. Rajanarayanan Historical Fiction Narayan's sympathetic treatment of his

Narayan's sympathetic treatment of his characters makes this a most fulfilling and touching book to read

Large numbers of followers and devotees have continued to throng Sufi shrines seeking blessings and benediction

finds himself in jail

imbuing their lives with meaning

Islanded returns us to the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries and to the advance of the British on the kingdom of Kandy

Where are You Going, You Monkeys? Folk Tales from Tamil Nadu by Ki. Rajanarayanan Historical Fiction Narayan's sympathetic treatment of hisThe celebrated folklorist Ki. Rajanarayanan (1923 2021) spent over 80 years collecting the weirdest and wildest tales of the karisal mannu, the black soil region around Kovilpatti, Tamil Nadu. This book contains a gallery of jealous husbands and conniving goddesses, pious sparrows and randy mice, jewel crazy girl ghosts and angry star demons, as well as a chapter of "naughty & dirty" folktales!