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  • Bibliography:
    11 Books
  • First Book:
    December 2014
  • Latest Book:
    November 2023
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Book List in Order: 11 titles



  • The “intimate and affecting” novel of an Indian couple’s quest for a child that sparked national conversations about caste and female empowerment (Laila Lalami, New York Times Book Review). Set in South India during the British colonial pe...





  • ONE AMAZING STORY. TWO DIFFERENT ENDINGS.At the end of Perumal Murugan's trailblazing novel One Part Woman, readers are left on a cliffhanger as Kali and Ponna's intense love for each other is torn to shreds. What is going to happen next to this belo...



  • ONE AMAZING STORY. TWO DIFFERENT ENDINGS.At the end of Perumal Murugan''s trailblazing novel One Part Woman, readers are left on a cliffhanger as Kali and Ponna''s intense love for each other is torn to shreds. What is going to happen next ...



  • “Fantastical . . . Through the thoughts of a rare black goat and the couple who adopt it, readers witness famines, death, and moments of beauty.” -- National GeographicLonglisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literatu...



  • Young Selvan's life is no longer the same. His family's ancestral land has been sold in order to make way for the construction of a housing colony. Now the verdant landscape of his childhood has been denuded, while Selvan and his family are compelled...



  • The vision he saw in his dream, a world in ruins and bereft of women-was that going to come true soon? If he could get married, he would live the way people lived in the old days. He wanted to have at least ten children, and he wanted them all to be ...



  • Fire Bird is a masterfully crafted tale of one man's search for the elusive concept of permanence. Muthu has his world turned upside down when his father divides the family land, leaving him with practically nothing and causing irreparable damage to ...



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    By the author of One Part Woman: “A haunting story of forbidden love set in Southern India that illustrates the cruel consequences of societal intolerance.” -- Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewSaroja and Kumaresan are young and in love. After meeti...



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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Perumal Murugan has published 11 books.

Perumal Murugan does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Fire Bird, was published in November 2023.

The first book by Perumal Murugan, One Part Woman, was published in December 2014.

No. Perumal Murugan does not write books in series.