Out in the Moonlight (English)

Author : Perumal Murugan
Illustrator : Ashok Rajagopalan

A little boy runs excitedly in the darkness, lit only by the light of a bright, bright moon. He is going with his mother and baby brother to the millet fields. As his mother works, he tries to make the most of the moonlit night with his newfound friend, a stray dog, while his brother sleeps...

It takes an exceptional writer like Perumal Murugan to narrate this vignette from his own life, evocatively and unsentimentally. Mood-filled illustrations bring the unfamiliar close in a nightscape redolent with anticipation and danger.

Originally in Tamil

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Age 5+
Specifications 28 pages; 8.5” x 9.5”; full colour; soft cover
ISBN 978-81-958000-7-0
First Published 2023
Tags Perumal Murugan, childhood, farming, true story, adventure

A cherished shared memory

This vignette of a farmer working quietly and steadily while one child is asleep and another plays is framed against a world where women form three-fourths of the labour force. Its anchorage in lived experience finely captures the interdependency and self-determination of child and adult. — Pattani Pod

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Out in the Moonlight (English)

Out in the Moonlight (English)

A little boy runs excitedly in the darkness, lit only by the light of a bright, bright moon. He is going with his mother and baby brother to the millet fields. As his mother works, he tries to make the most of the moonlit night with his newfound friend, a stray dog, while his brother sleeps...

It takes an exceptional writer like Perumal Murugan to narrate this vignette from his own life, evocatively and unsentimentally. Mood-filled illustrations bring the unfamiliar close in a nightscape redolent with anticipation and danger.

Originally in Tamil

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