An English translation of Jeyamohan’s Tamil novel Ezham Ulagam.

Finalist – American Literary Translators Association (ALTA)’s First Translation Prize 2024

Judges’ citation:

The Abyss

By Jeyamohan

Translated from Tamil by Suchitra Ramachandran

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This unsettling, unforgettable Tamil novel about a seemingly respectable man who runs a cartel of beggars finds beauty, humor, and insight in the most difficult places. Originally published in 2003 and adapted into a 2009 film, Jeyamohan’s narrative is harrowing yet luminous, distilling the rawness of lived experience into a wrenching meditation on survival, violence, cruelty, and the ironies of how certain bodies are marginalized and rendered at once invisible and hyper-visible in all the wrong ways. Suchitra Ramachandran’s dazzling translation sings in shadows and light, carefully framing Jeyamohan’s work and conveying the complexity of his vision with a clarity that does not sacrifice the novel’s eccentricity.  

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