Come back every Tuesday for a new set of five! This week's selection includes Sujatha Rangarajan, Perumal Murugan, Ramakrishnan, Ramamrutham and Nagarajan.
Niramatra Vanavil by Sujatha Rangarajan

Written by a recipient of the Kalaimamani Award, it is transliterated as ‘Colourless Rainbow’. It portrays the events in the life of a person who loses his family overnight, and how he copes with life after that.
Madhorubhagan by Perumal Murugan
Translated as One Part Woman by Aniruddhan Vasudevan

This novel deals with a young childless couple struggling within their marriage, drawing specifically from the community and culture of the Kongunadu region. Its translatation into English won the translator the Sahitya Akademi Translation Award.
Sancharam by S. Ramakrishnan

Awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award, the novel is based on the lives of Nadaswaram players from Tamil Nadu.
Abitha by La Sa Ramamrutham

Lalgudi Saptarishi Ramamrutham was a veteran Tamil novelist, having authored 300 short stories, 6 novels and 10 collections of essays. He won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1989 for “Chintha Nathi”, a collection of autobiographical essays.
Naalai Matrumoru Naale by G. Nagarajan

This novella by the maverick Tamil prose writer G. Nagarajan is centred around one eventful day in the life of a small-scale operator, fix-it man, pimp and procurer, Kandan. It offers a reading of the seamy and temporality, human desire and the possibility of love in the harsh and often violent underworld of a small town in Tamil Nadu.

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