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Ill-paid and always tired, Sathi, a young soda-seller, finds relief from the tedium of the everyday in marijuana and his friends—-vulnerable, desperate young men who work around a movie theatre. This is life lived in the shadows of show business, sustained by a petty and tiring commerce in sex and money.

Stylishly written in a manner that mimics the rapid cuts and forward movement of Indian cinema.

A novel of life on the fringes, set in a movie theatre in South India--stylishly written, available for the first time.

Perumal Murugan is a well known contemporary Tamil writer whose strong work has won great praise from critics and readers. His writing focuses on life lived in the margins of society, both rural and urban, he experiments a great deal with prose styles. The experience of 'untouchability' is a strong thematic concern with him. Perumal Murugan has written three novels, several short stories and poems, and edited a dialect dictionary, which won the State Award for excellence. Several of his short stories have been translated into English and have won critical acclaim. He recently won a prestigious national fiction award. V.Geetha is a leading intellectual from South India. A writer and translator, she has published widely in English and Tamil, in the areas of modern history, contemporary politics, the radical left and feminism. V. Geetha has been active in the women's movement in India for over a decade. In her writings, she attempts to read the past and its lessons against its grain.