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020			_a9780143423546
082			_a894.811372 _bMUR
100			_aMurugan, Perumal
245			_aOne part woman
260			_bPenguin Books, _c2015 _aNew Delhi :
300			_a240 p. ; _c20 cm
365			_b299.00 _cINR _d01
520			_aAll of Kali and Ponna's efforts to conceive a child - from prayers to penance, potions to pilgrimages - have been in vain. Despite being in a loving and sexually satisfying relationship, they are relentlessly hounded by the taunts and insinuations of the people around them. Ultimately, all their hopes and apprehensions come to converge on the chariot festival in the temple of the half-female god Ardhanareeswara and the revelry surrounding it. Everything hinges on the one night when rules are relaxed and consensual union between any man and woman is sanctioned. This night could end the couple's suffering and humiliation. But it will also put their marriage to the ultimate test. Acutely observed, One Part Woman lays bare with unsparing clarity a relationship caught between the dictates of social convention and the tug of personal anxieties, vividly conjuring an intimate and unsettling portrait of marriage, love and sex.
650			_aTamil fiction
650			_aCaste system
650			_aSocial norms
650			_a Motherhood
650			_aInfertility
700			_aVasudevan, Aniruddhan _etr.
942			_2ddc _cBK