Current Show

by Perumal Murugan

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Sathi is a young soda-seller in a run-down cinema hall in a small town. Ill-paid and always weary, he finds relief from everyday tedium in marijuana and his friends-vulnerable, desperate young men who work around the movie hall. An intense and tender friendship with one of the men sustains Sathi, until a train of events casts the meagre certainties of his days and nights into disarray.
Slick, visceral and startlingly inventive, Current Show unfolds in a manner that simulates rapid cinematic cuts. Murugan's keen eye and crackling prose plumb the dark underbelly of small-town life, bringing Sathi's world and entanglements thrillingly to life.

'[Murugan's] characters, dialogues and locales are unerringly drawn and intensely evocative . . . A superb writer'-Indian Express
'The most accomplished of his generation of Tamil writers'-Caravan

  • ISBN10 0143428357
  • ISBN13 9780143428350
  • Publish Date 1 April 2017 (first published 31 January 2004)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country IN
  • Publisher Penguin Random House India
  • Imprint Penguin
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 200
  • Language English