Excerpted with permission from Sandalwood Soap and Other Stories, Perumal Murugan, translated from the Tamily by Kavitha Muralidharan, Juggernaut Books.

As soon as he gets down to work by hacking down the trees and severing the long lianas, the forest strikes back. When he ...

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The author styles the book as a “short story cycle ... This work of historical fiction tells the little-known stories of Tamil and Malayalee men and women who worked at Sembawang Naval ...

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