If There Is A God – Imayam, Translated from Tamil by Prabha Sridevan

Description

The ten stories in this collection cover different spaces and unravel many layers that Imayam so masterfully and effortlessly weaves into his narratives of social and gender inequalities in the midst of power play. A school boy, who is a terror for the warden, shows inclusiveness far mature for his age; the reality check in which politics is caught when the true worker gets lost in the background; the irony of the changing meaning of sex between the wife and her husband as the years go by; a mother’s response to the pragmatic solution offered to her when her young son has been killed by his teacher’s sexual abuse and she wants justice to be done; the resilience of a woman whose husband becomes a ‘government corpse’ in these Covid times – are just some of the voices we hear through Imayam.