{"product_id":"9780802159335","title":"Pyre","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eOne Part Woman\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Story of a Goat\u003c\/i\u003e, both longlisted for the National Book Award for Translation, comes a poignant and startling novel about love, caste, and intolerance\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eProfiled in both the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eand the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, Perumal Murugan is one of India’s highest selling and most respected literary writers, and \u003ci\u003ePyre\u003c\/i\u003e is perhaps his most beloved work. Saroja and Kumaresan are young and in love. After meeting in a small southern Indian town where Kumaresan works at a soda bottling shop, they quickly marry before returning to Kumaresan’s family village, where they hope to build a happy life together. But they are harboring a terrible secret: Saroja is from a different caste than Kumaresan, and if the villagers find out, they will both be in grave danger. Faced with venom from her mother-in-law and questions from her new neighbors, Saroja tries to adjust to a new lonely and uncomfortable life, while Kumaresan struggles to scrape together enough money for them to start over somewhere new. Will their love keep them safe in a world filled with thorns? In evocative prose, Perumal Murugan masterfully conjures a moving tale of innocent young love pitted against chilling violence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grove\/Atlantic, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47044029350128,"sku":"9780802159335","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780802159335_p0.jpg?v=1763737846","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780802159335","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}