One of the best book, I've read since. The words, he used in this novel was strikingly beautiful and it's a persona of his past childhood life to modern life. This book shows how his mom paid a grand attention to the family even after her husband's deathbed. She is a wonder woman to writer Perumal Murugan but for the readers his mom is a great inspiration and bold figure to today's women, who are running their life with oppressed and depressed situations in family as well as in the society. ...